Configuring Message Filtering; Understanding Email Filtering; Notes On Filtering Actions - Symantec 10765539 - Mail Security For SMTP Planning Manual

Configuring message
filtering
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Understanding email filtering

Symantec Mail Security for SMTP provides a wide variety of actions for filtering
email, and allows you to either set identical options for all users, or specify
different actions for distinct users or groups.
You can specify groups of users based on email addresses, domain names, or
LDAP groups. For each group, you can specify an action or group of actions to
perform, given a particular verdict.
Each category of unwanted email includes one or more verdicts, conclusions
reached on a message by the filtering process. Symantec Mail Security for SMTP
performs actions on a message based on the verdict applied to that message, and
the groups that include the message recipient as a member.
For detailed descriptions of email filtering verdicts, refer to the Symantec Mail
Security for SMTP Administration Guide.

Notes on filtering actions

When configuring email filtering, consider the following limitations:
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Understanding email filtering
Deployment considerations
All Virus verdicts except suspicious attachments share the same available
actions. Two additional actions, Delay message delivery and Strip and hold
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