We want to remove PMs that are over 1 or 2 years old. Is there any setting to auto-delete personal/private messages that are older than a year? Or conversations that are inactive for 1 year?

You’d need a plugin. What problem are you solving with this? It’s not straightforward. What do you do with a topic that’s started 5 years ago that has replies yesterday?

Thank you for your replies, pfaffman & JammyDodger. Is there a plugin? Or it needs to be custom-built? I’m trying to purge inactive, old conversations - something our compliance team wants us to explore. If there are ongoing conversations, they remain unaffected. Only conversations that are inactive for over a year.

Any setting to auto-delete personal messages older than N days?

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JammyDodger February 18, 2026, 7:21pm 2

Hmm. I don’t think there’s anything truly automatic currently, but you may be able to utilise the Search + Bulk Actions to do a batch tidy-up?

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Any setting to auto-delete personal messages older than N days?

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