Symantec Mail Security, Administration Manual

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203 Feature Cross-Reference
Changes for Symantec Mail Security for SMTP users
Changes for Symantec Mail Security for SMTP users
For users of Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 4.1, Version 5.0 provides a host of
expanded and improved capabilities. In addition to the new features listed in
Table A-1 , additional new features for Symantec Mail Security for SMTP users
only are listed in Table A-2 .
Improved
reporting and
monitoring Extensive set of pre-built
reports, scheduled reporting,
additional alert conditions,
remote syslog support More than 50 graphical reports that you can generate ad-hoc or
on a scheduled basis. Reports can be exported for offline analysis
and emailed.
Message tracking View a trail of detailed information about a message, including
the filtering processing applied to a message.
Expanded
administration
capabilities IP-based access control Control which hosts and networks can access your Control Center.
Control over Quarantine size
limits Specify user-based and total limits, configure automatic message
deletions.
Table A-1 New features for Symantec Mail Security for SMTP and Symantec Brightmail Antispam
Category Features Description
Table A-2 New features for Symantec Mail Security for SMTP users
Category Features Description
Flexible mail
management Centralized, Web-
based administration Use the Control Center to manage all aspects of email management and
spam, virus, and content filtering across all servers with one interface.
Group Policies Create separate inbound and outbound policies for an unlimited number
of groups of users. You can specify groups of users based on email
addresses, domains, LDAP groups, or IP addresses. For each category of
email, you can specify custom message handling for each group.
Expanded
notification
capabilities 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.
Inbound and
outbound
content controls Improved
attachment blocking Strip attachments within container files. Search within attachments
using regular expressions.
Improved
reporting and
monitoring Aggregated logging
and reporting Access logs for all messages from all servers via the Control Center.
Manage reports for all servers via the Control Center. Note that many of
the reporting features in SMS for SMTP 4.1 have been replaced in SMS
for SMTP 5.0 by the message tracking feature.