Effective May 12, 1997, Miami Computing & Information Services (MCIS) will
implement a policy on the Digital OpenVMS cluster in Oxford (MiaVX1) of
limiting retention of unread/unaccessed mail messages to 30 days.
 
This is the same retention limit already in effect on the IBM VM/CMS system
(MiamiU) and the Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) server (po.muohio.edu)
used to serve users of POP3 e-mail client applications such as Eudora.
 
Currently, new mail messages are retained on MiaVX1 until the user removes
them or the user's account is removed from the system.  Under the new policy,
any mail messages that have not been read through the mail programs on MiaVX1
itself (Mail and Pine) or have not been accessed via a POP3 client application
(such as Eudora) and are more than 30 days old will be removed from the
system.  Only messages that have never been read or accessed on the system
will be removed.  Mail messages that have been either read online or retrieved
via POP3 will be left untouched.
 
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          Miami University
 
          John B Harlan
          Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) Coordinator
 
          Miami Computing & Information Services (MCIS) Client Services
          137 Hoyt Hall
          Oxford, Ohio 45056-1618
          (513) 529-5330 voice  (513) 529-5058 fax
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          http://miavx1.muohio.edu/~harlanjb/