Changes For Symantec Mail Security For Smtp Users - Symantec 10547829 - Mail Security For Smtp 5.0 Smb Installation Manual

10 Introducing Symantec Mail Security for SMTP
What's new in Symantec Mail Security for SMTP
Table 1-1 New features for Symantec Mail Security for SMTP and Symantec Brightmail Antispam
Category Features
Improved Extensive set of pre-built
reporting and reports, scheduled reporting,
monitoring additional alert conditions,
remote syslog support
Message tracking
Expanded IP-based access control
administration
Control over Quarantine size
capabilities
limits

Changes for Symantec Mail Security for SMTP users

Table 1-2 New features for Symantec Mail Security for SMTP users
Category Features
Flexible mail Centralized, Web-
management based administration
Group Policies
Expanded
notification
capabilities
Inbound and Improved
outbound attachment blocking
content controls
Improved Aggregated logging
reporting and and reporting
monitoring
Description
More than 50 graphical reports that you can generate ad-hoc or
on a scheduled basis. Reports can be exported for offline analysis
and emailed.
View a trail of detailed information about a message, including
the filtering processing applied to a message.
Control which hosts and networks can access your Control Center.
Specify user-based and total limits, configure automatic message
deletions.
For users of Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 4.1, Version 5.0 provides a host of
expanded and improved capabilities. In addition to the new features listed in
Table 1-1, additional new features for Symantec Mail Security for SMTP users
only are listed in Table
Description
Use the Control Center to manage all aspects of email management and
spam, virus, and content filtering across all servers with one interface.
Create separate inbound and outbound policies for an unlimited number
of groups of users. You can specify groups of users based on email
addresses, domains, LDAP groups, or IP addresses. For each category of
email, you can specify custom message handling for each group.
Automatically send emails notifying specific persons or groups when
certain message conditions are encountered during message filtering.
Create different notifications for different conditions or user groups.
Strip attachments within container files. Search within attachments
using regular expressions.
Access logs for all messages from all servers via the Control Center.
Manage reports for all servers via the Control Center. Note that many of
the reporting features in SMS for SMTP 4.1 have been replaced in SMS
for SMTP 5.0 by the message tracking feature.
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