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

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-setting-to-auto-delete-personal-messages-older-than-n-days/396437>\
**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:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2026, 7:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-setting-to-auto-delete-personal-messages-older-than-n-days/396437/3 "2026-02-18T19:40:53Z")

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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?

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