14 Introducing Symantec Mail Security for SMTP
Changes for Symantec Brightmail Antispam users
the new features listed in
Table 1-1
, additional new features for Symantec
Brightmail Antispam users only are listed in
Table 1-4
.
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 the
Symantec Mail Security for SMTP Administration Guide
for an updated
explanation of how settings and policies interact.
Table 1-4
New features for Symantec Brightmail Antispam users
Category
Features
Description
Threat
protection
features
Improved virus
processing
LiveUpdate support for virus definitions, list of file types to exclude
from virus scanning, expanded container limit controls
Outbound filtering
Provides spam, virus, and content compliance filtering on outbound
email messages. Specify different outbound and inbound policies for
each user group.
Flexible mail
management
More flexible Group
Policies
Use LDAP groups to populate groups for Group Policies.
Multiple actions
Specify more than one action to take on specific categories of
messages to specific groups of recipients.
Inbound and
outbound
content controls
Expanded content
compliance filtering
capabilities
Expanded set of actions available on filtered messages, support for
multiple actions on the same messages
Attachment blocking
Create lists of attachment types to remove. Strip attachments within
container files.
Annotations
Automatically append or prepend text, such as legal disclaimers or
marketing tag lines, to messages.
Notifications
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.
Improved
reporting and
monitoring
Expanded virus
monitoring
Virus outbreak alerts, expanded logging of virus events
Expanded logging
Symantec Security Information Manager (SSIM) logging support
Expanded
administration
capabilities
Global reject or pause
of message scanning
During a virus outbreak, you can temporarily pause scanning until
new virus filters are in place.
