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What's New in Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam
Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam Version 6.0 provides the following enhancements over
previous releases:
Table 1.
Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam Version 6.0 Enhancements
Feature
Brightmail
Control Center
Brightmail
Scanner
Multiple-Machine
Management
Group Policies
Improved
Filtering
Brightmail
Reputation
Service
Improved
Reporting
Language
Identification
Quarantine
Management
and End User
Improvements
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Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam Overview
Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam Overview
Description
The Brightmail Control Center (Control Center) is a Web-based cross-platform
configuration and administration center built in Java. Each Symantec Brightmail
AntiSpam installation has one Control Center, which also houses Brightmail Quarantine
and supporting software. You can configure and monitor all of your Brightmail Scanners
from the Control Center.
The Control Center replaces the Brightmail configuration file, the Configurator and the
Brightmail Administration Console. These components are no longer included in
Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam.
Brightmail Scanners perform email filtering. Your Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam
installation can have one or many Brightmail Scanners. Each Brightmail Scanner
includes one or both of the following components: Brightmail Server, Brightmail Client.
You can now configure and manage multiple Brightmail Scanners from one Brightmail
Control Center. Previously each computer filtering email had to be configured
individually.
You can now specify an unlimited number of user groups, identified by email addresses
or domain names, and customize mail filtering for each group.
Numerous improvements have been made to Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam's filtering
technologies, including enhanced effectiveness for URL Filters and Heuristic Filters;
filtering on mailto: links in messages; improved filtering on MIME headers; and the next
generation of Signature Filters, which target comparisons to specific message
components with surgical precision.
The Brightmail Reputation Service provides comprehensive reputation tracking that
enhances the power of Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam. Symantec manages three lists
as part of the Brightmail Reputation Service. Each list operates automatically and filters
your messages using the same technology as Symantec's other filters. The Brightmail
Reputation Service includes the Open Proxy List, the Safe List and the Suspect List.
For added convenience and clarity, pre-set reports are now separated into two groups:
antispam reports and antivirus reports. You can choose from a selection of reports; each
report can be customized to include specific date ranges, time period groupings, and
various delivery and output options. For some reports, you can filter based on specific
recipients and senders of interest.
Users of the Brightmail Plug-in for Outlook can choose from a list of languages in which
they would like to receive messages. Messages identified as written in a language not
on the user's list will be filtered as spam.
Brightmail Quarantine is now managed via the Brightmail Control Center. You can now
set messages to be deleted based on the total size of the Quarantine database or
based on each user's storage usage. When users receive digest notifications from
Brightmail Quarantine, they can now click on a View link to view an individual message,
or click on a Release link to release a message back to the inbox.
Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam™
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