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Email Protection Administrator Guide
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Click Save or continue to the Filename tab.
Filter by Attachment File Name
You can create custom filter to filter email for specific file names. This filter overrides any
conflicting file type policies you may have defined.
To define a filter for attachment file name, perform the following steps:
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Click Email Protection | Policies.
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Select the policy you want to change.
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Click Attachments.
The Attachments: File Types window is displayed.
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Click Filename Policies.
The Filename Policies window is displayed.
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Click New.
The New Attachment Filename Policy section is displayed.
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From the Filter drop-down menu, select one of the following:
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Proprietary: Not for use or disclosure outside McAfee without written permission
Strip the attachment – Email Protection strips the attachment from the email and
the email is sent to the recipient. Text is inserted into the email notifying the
recipient that an attachment has been stripped.
Quarantine the message – Email Protection sends the email to quarantine.
Is – Email Protection filters for file names that have an exact match to the text in
the Value field. For example, if you want to filter for the file name config.exe and
no others, you must select Is and then type config.exe in the Value field. For this
example,, the Is option has the meaning "File name IS config.exe."
Contains – Email Protection filters for file names that contain the text in the
Value description anywhere within the filename string. For example, if you want
to filter for any file that contains config in its name, like postconfig or config.ini,
select this option.
Define an Attachment Filter
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