Utilities: List Settings: Automatic Maintenance: Purging Inactive Members

These settings determine how frequently inactive members are purged from your database. By default, they are never purged. If you would like to conserve space in your database, you may change these settings.

Purge Held

This setting determines how long someone who has had their membership placed on "hold" should remain until they are permanently erased from the system.

Purge Unconfirmed

This setting determines how long someone who has asked to subscribe to the mailing list, but never "confirmed" their membership should remain in the system until they are permanently erased from the system.

This setting only applies if the mailing list is set to require confirmation from new members. See Utilities: List Settings: New Subscriber Policy: Confirmation.

Purge Unapproved

This setting determines how long someone who has applied for membership but not been approved by an administrator should remain until they are permanently erased from the system.

This setting only applies if the mailing list has its security set to "private", so that new memberships require administrator approval. See Utilities: List Settings: New Subscriber Policy: Security.

Purge Expired

This setting determines how long someone who has had their membership expire should remain until they are permanently erased from the system.

This setting only applies if an expiration date is set on memberships, so that memberships expire after a certain number of days. Otherwise, memberships never expire.

Purge Unsubscribed

This setting determines how long an unsubscribed member should remain in the database before they are permanently deleted. Keeping unsubscribed members allows you to get accurate reports of your membership.

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