About FileSender

FileSender is an installation of the FileSender project (filesender.org) which is a web based application that allows authenticated users to securely and easily send arbitrarily large files to other users.

Authentication of users is provided through SimpleSAMLphp, supporting SAML2, LDAP and RADIUS and more. Users without an account can be sent an upload voucher by an authenticated user. FileSender is developed to the requirements of the higher education and research community.

The purpose of the software is to send a large file to someone, have that file available for download for a certain number of downloads and/or a certain amount of time, and after that automatically delete the file. The software is not intended as a permanent file publishing platform.

In order for this service to operate it must retain some information about files, who can access them, and what has happened. Files will be automatically removed from the system when they expire and other retained information will be removed from the system and database after some amount of time has passed. This page allows you to see how long various pieces of information are retained by this installation.

Note that when a transfer is deleted, all the related files are also deleted along with the copies of any emails that have been sent out which relate to the transfer.

Number of days information is retained

40 Maximum number of days until a transfer expires
10 If a transfer fails you might be offered the ability to report the issue directly through this web interface. That report will be removed from the server database after this many days have passed.
30 Number of days emails sent to a user will be retained
0 Once a guest has expired they are removed after this many days
31 Days that a log of what actions have happened is retained.
90 Days that a log of tracking events are retained. These are primarily email bounce events.The email addresses you send files to are stored while your ccount is in the system. You can delete just this specific information in your user profile at any time using the button to clear frequent recipients on the Account Settings page. Note that the button on the my profile page will only clear part of your profile, the email address may still be in one of the above logs for the duration that those logs are kept.