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Configuring email filtering
This chapter includes the following topics:
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About email filtering
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Creating groups and adding members
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Assigning filter policies to a group
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Managing Group Policies
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Creating virus, spam, and compliance filter policies
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Managing Email Firewall policies
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Configuring Sender Authentication
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Managing policy resources
About email filtering
Although Symantec Mail Security provides default settings for dealing with spam
and viruses, you will likely want to tailor the actions taken on spam and viruses
to suit your requirements. Content filtering and Email Firewall policies offer
further methods of managing mail flow into and out of your organization.
Symantec Mail Security provides a wide variety of actions for filtering email, and
allows you to either set identical options for all users, or specify different actions
for distinct user groups.
You can specify groups of users based on email addresses, domain names, or LDAP
groups. For each group, you can specify an action or group of actions to perform,
given a particular verdict.
Each category of email includes one or more verdicts. Verdicts are the conclusions
reached on a message by the filtering process. Symantec Mail Security performs
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