Revision date: August 28, 2006
 
READER FILE RETENTION PERIODS
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Files residing in a user's reader will remain for a predefined number of days,
based on the ID and the type of file:
 
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| Personal mail:         is deleted after 35 days.                            |
| Job returned from MVS: is deleted after 14 days.                            |
| Mailing list mail:     is deleted after 05 days.                            |
| FOCTEMP file:          is deleted after 05 days.                            |
| Any other file:        is deleted after 14 days.                            |
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STUDENT MAIL POLICY
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As of May 5, 2003, all mail on the VM Spool will be retained using the
retention periods listed above.
 
These defaults are set at the server, meaning you cannot change the parameters
defined. The same defaults are currently in place for faculty and staff using
UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU email. The changes will bring a consistency for all users.
 
If you need to save your email for longer periods of time, you can set a mail
forward (in addition to UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU) to HUSKYMAIL.UCONN.EDU, which will
continue to maintain it's default storage size of 25MB and will not have date
aging applied; your email will remain in store until you delete it.
 
In addition, to the above you can use a POP client configured to store a copy
of your mail on your desktop or use MAILBOOK (the MAIL option) from your CMS
account which stores the mail in NOTEBOOK files on VM.
 
The following resources will provide you with more information about email.
 
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| From your web browser:                                                      |
|     http://email.uconn.edu                                                  |
|     http://vm.uconn.edu/cgi-bin/cmshelp?uconn%20spfiles                     |
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| From your CMS account, at the CMS prompt:                                   |
|     HELP MAIL TASK                                                          |
|     HELP MAILBOOK                                                           |
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NOTE: In some cases, it may be necessary to delete files before their normal
expiration.  This may occur when spool space is drastically low, when a
computer virus is observed on the spool, or in other circumstances.
 
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The Computer Center reserves the right to change these policies without notice.
 
Reader files are not backed up; reader files discarded by the user can not be
restored.
 
Please refer any questions to the UITS Help Center. They are located in room
M037 of the Math Science Building, you can telephone at (860) 486-4357, or
email them at helpcenter@uconn.edu
 
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