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

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** personal-messages\
**Created:** [February 18, 2026, 6:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-setting-to-auto-delete-personal-messages-older-than-n-days/396437 "2026-02-18T18:47:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 7:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-setting-to-auto-delete-personal-messages-older-than-n-days/396437/2 "2026-02-18T19:21:49Z")

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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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