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Calculating the Age of an Event

An event’s eligibility for purging therefore depends on its age. For:

• A captured event, that is, an e-mail or Web page captured by a CA DLP client or server agent, its age is calculated from the time the trigger activated.
• Imported e-mails, the age is determined by the EMail.EventDateFromEMail parameter. This specifies whether the e-mails capture date is set from the date in the e-mail itself or the date when it was imported. This parameter is described in the Deployment guide; search the index for ‘parameters: Event Import’.

  Note: The default retention period can be overwritten by reviewers and policy administrators—see below.

More information:

Overriding the Default Retention Period