About Email Filtering And Message Handling Options - Symantec 10490452 - Mail Security 8220 Administration Manual

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About email filtering and message handling options

Table A-4 New features for Symantec Brightmail Antispam users
Category Features
Improved Expanded virus
reporting and monitoring
monitoring
Expanded logging
Expanded Global reject or pause
administration of message scanning
capabilities
About email filtering and message handling options
Description
Virus outbreak alerts, expanded logging of virus events
Symantec Security Information Manager (SSIM) logging support
During a virus outbreak, you can temporarily pause scanning until
new virus filters are in place.
While the names of features are largely the same, you will find some changes to
the organization of menus. Most importantly, you will now find a Policies menu
at the top level, breaking out Group Policies (under the Settings menu in
Symantec Brightmail Antispam 6.0.3), and including other items as well. See
"About email filtering and message handling options"
updated explanation of how settings and policies interact.
In Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0, there are five types of choices you can
make about filtering options. These choices provide much greater flexibility,
and it is important to understand how your choices for various options interact
with each other, as follows:
Email Scanning Settings: Settings determine system-wide policies for
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handling email. These include:
Address Masquerading
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Aliases
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Spam Settings
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Virus Settings
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Invalid Recipients
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Local Domains
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Scanning (including Container Limits)
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Filter Policies: Specific sets of conditions that identify categories of email,
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and specific sets of actions to take on those messages. You can specify
multiple filter policies for the same email categories, and then use different
filter policies for different groups of users. Filter policies include:
Spam policies
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Virus policies
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