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Mimecast Rule

Archive Minimum Retention should match the agreement and cannot be decreased

Catalog row in Vendor License Rules · Cited

Kind
Compliance
Statement
Governance & Compliance KB: the Minimum Retention Setting is set in days at account level, should match the time in the customer's agreement when Compliance Protect is enabled, and cannot be decreased once validated. Content preservation policies cannot be set below it. (KB article undated; as published on 2026-09-30.)
Applies when
Buying or changing an archive retention period.
Applies to
Mimecast Cloud Archive and GCI archiving
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