Patent ID: 8024283

Claim:
A computer program product to enforce rule selection on user email inboxes, comprising: a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising: computer readable program code configured to identify inactive user inboxes stored at an email database that do not have appropriate user rules activated having: computer readable program code configured to run a first agent on email messages stored at the email database to identify the inactive user inboxes; and computer readable program code configured to run a second agent on the inactive user inboxes identified by the first agent, to identify the inactive user inboxes that do not have appropriate user rules activated; computer readable program code configured to determine, for each inactive user inbox identified, if the user inbox has been inactive for at least a predetermined period of time; and computer readable program code configured to apply administrator rules to the user inbox if the user inbox has been inactive for at least the predetermined period of time.