# 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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**Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 9:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-setting-to-auto-delete-personal-messages-older-than-n-days/396437/4 "2026-02-19T09:32:46Z")

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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.

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