Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 30 June 2015
147. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Taoiseach if his Department uses any system of software for the auto-deletion of e-mail messages; if so, his Department's guidelines on the use of such a system; and the length of time e-mails are stored before they are auto-deleted. [25308/15]
View answerMy Department does not use any system of software for the auto-deletion of email messages with the exception of some incoming emails that are blocked by our email filtering product.
All email messages received in my Department pass through filtering software and certain messages are automatically blocked e.g. emails classified as spam, emails with viruses and emails with potentially dangerous file attachments such as executables or multimedia files.
When an email is blocked due to a potentially dangerous file attachment the intended recipients are notified and can request that the email be released. These emails are deleted automatically after 17 days if not released by then. Spam messages are automatically deleted after 10 days and emails with viruses are automatically deleted after 30 days.
