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

12 Introducing Symantec Mail Security for SMTP
What's new in Symantec Mail Security for SMTP

Changes for Symantec Brightmail Antispam users

Table 1-4 New features for Symantec Brightmail Antispam users
Category Features
Threat Improved virus
protection processing
features
Outbound filtering
Flexible mail More flexible Group
management Policies
Multiple actions
Inbound and Expanded content
outbound compliance filtering
content controls capabilities
Attachment blocking
Annotations
Notifications
Improved Expanded virus
reporting and monitoring
monitoring
Expanded logging
Return code support for DNS Blacklists
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Configurable administrator timeout for the management interface
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Although the product name has changed, if you were a Symantec Brightmail
Antispam user you will find the user interface for Symantec Mail Security for
SMTP 5.0 quite familiar. Most features are named similarly, and the organization
of the user interface is quite similar. Most of the changes are new features.
For users of Symantec Brightmail Antispam, Symantec Mail Security for SMTP
Version 5.0 provides significant new and expanded capabilities. In addition to
the new features listed in
Brightmail Antispam users only are listed in
Description
LiveUpdate support for virus definitions, list of file types to exclude
from virus scanning, expanded container limit controls
Provides spam, virus, and content compliance filtering on outbound
email messages. Specify different outbound and inbound policies for
each user group.
Use LDAP groups to populate groups for Group Policies.
Specify more than one action to take on specific categories of
messages to specific groups of recipients.
Expanded set of actions available on filtered messages, support for
multiple actions on the same messages
Create lists of attachment types to remove. Strip attachments within
container files.
Automatically append or prepend text, such as legal disclaimers or
marketing tag lines, to messages.
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.
Virus outbreak alerts, expanded logging of virus events
Symantec Security Information Manager (SSIM) logging support
Table 1-1, additional new features for Symantec
Table 1-4.