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112 Configuring email filtering
Managing policy resources
Configuring dictionaries
classes and types that you want to match. Press and hold Ctrl while
clicking to select more than one file class or file type.
Click the second radio button to match files based on their file names,
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extensions, or MIME types. Choose File name, Extension, or MIME-
type. Then choose is, contains, begins with, or ends with. Then type
the text to match or not match.
Type only one filename, extension, or MIME type in the box.
includes information about valid extension, file name, and MIME-type
attachment types. Type the MIME type completely, such as image or
image/gif, not ima.
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Click Add to add the condition you created to the list of conditions at the
bottom of the page.
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Repeat steps 4 and 5 to add more conditions as desired.
If needed, you can click on a condition in the list and click Delete to delete
that condition.
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Click Save.
A dictionary is a list of words, phrases, or both that messages are checked
against when you choose the Any part of the message condition in a compliance
policy. Symantec Mail Security for SMTP evaluates matches to a dictionary
using substring text analysis, not regular expression analysis.
Symantec Mail Security for SMTP includes the following predefined
dictionaries, which can be edited. The dictionaries marked as ambiguous contain
terms that could be legitimate when used in certain contexts.
Profanity
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Profanity (Ambiguous)
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Racial
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Racial (Ambiguous)
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Sexual
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Sexual Slang
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Sexual (Ambiguous)
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Note the following additional information about dictionaries:
Tests against dictionaries only match the exact word listed, not other
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common endings, such as verb tenses.
Wildcards are not supported in dictionaries.
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