Google Workspace email retention settings - how are you managing it

[timbo343]

We are looking at implementing an email retention policy in Google workspace and I was hoping retention settings could be configure per OU or per Group however it seems that this is not the case.

 

Instead, it seems that Google has an all or nothing approach with the email "Email and Chat Auto-deletion" policy only applying at top level, so with this in mind, those that have set this up, how are you managing this? Have you got the optional method of "To exclude messages with specific labels from auto-deletion, enter a comma-separated list of the label names under Do not automatically delete messages with the following labels. Communicate these labels to people in your organization so they can create the same labels for messages they want to keep. Learn how to Create labels to organize Gmail."