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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

Archive email manually

You can archive email messages manually on demand instead of waiting for the instance to archive them based on a scheduled job.

Before you begin

Role required: admin

About this task

Email Retention provides this email archive rule:

You can manually archive email messages that meet these archive rules or any additional archive rules that you create.

Note: An archive record must be active for the instance to be able to process records with it.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > System Archiving > Archive Rules.

  2. Open the email archiving rule that you want to modify.

  3. Select Recalculate Archive Estimate to see how many records in the Email [sys_email] table are going to be archived.

    Note: The estimate appears in the Record estimate field.

  4. Select Run Archive Now.

    Note: You can also Create an archive rule.

Parent Topic:Email retention