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kpapreck's avatar
kpapreck
Level 4
15 years ago

Enterprise Vault Custom Filtering on specific message class

I am looking to write custom code to specify a specific retention category for a specific message class.  Looking at the rulesschema.xdr and customproperties files they do not have a category for message classes.  Does anyone know how I can do this?  Essentially, i am looking to have a 30 day retention and purge on all emails that are voicemails IPM.Note.Microsoft.Voicemail.UM.CA after 60 days.  I have a retain forever retention for all other message classes.  How can I do this?

Thanks,
Kevin
Enterprise Vault
Information Governance
  • Rob_Wilcox1's avatar
    Rob_Wilcox1
    15 years ago
    It's possible ...

    Firstly it is possible to do this.  You can write a custom filter XML file, and custom properties XML file to assign a diferent retention category (or delete mails or mark them as do not archive) from mailboxes (or journal mailboxes) based on message class.

    I'm writing up exactly how to do this as an article.  I'll update this post when the article is published.  It'll have all the steps in it, to assign IPM.Note.Microsoft.Voicemail.UM.CA to a 60 Day Retention Category... versus the ordinary mails which will be assigned to my default "Marketing" retention category.
  • AndrewB's avatar
    AndrewB
    Moderator
    15 years ago

    we had a similar requirement from our business. in our case, they wanted any voicemail (IPM.Note.Voice.Unity) that had been archived to be purged after 30 days. we were able to accomplish by writing a custom app using the supplied API. since it has to touch each mailbox, we opt to only run it on the weekends via a scheduled task.

  • Rob_Wilcox1's avatar
    Rob_Wilcox1
    Level 6
    15 years ago
    It's possible ...

    Firstly it is possible to do this.  You can write a custom filter XML file, and custom properties XML file to assign a diferent retention category (or delete mails or mark them as do not archive) from mailboxes (or journal mailboxes) based on message class.

    I'm writing up exactly how to do this as an article.  I'll update this post when the article is published.  It'll have all the steps in it, to assign IPM.Note.Microsoft.Voicemail.UM.CA to a 60 Day Retention Category... versus the ordinary mails which will be assigned to my default "Marketing" retention category.
  • kpapreck's avatar
    kpapreck
    Level 4
    15 years ago
    Thanks! Do you know the approximate timeframe for the article to be finished up?
  • TonySterling's avatar
    TonySterling
    Moderator
    15 years ago
    Looks like it is there now:

    https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/custom-filtering-enterprise-vault

  • Rob_Wilcox1's avatar
    Rob_Wilcox1
    Level 6
    15 years ago
    Unfortunately it's down to board admins ...  it's there now though, like Tony said.

    Hope it proves useful.