Email Protection Administrator Guide
November 2012
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11. Tips and Frequently Asked
Questions
FAQs
User Management
Question: Can a user see another user’s quarantined emails?
Answer:
Sign in access to the Control Console is user-specific. Unless the user has logged
in as an Administrator or Quarantine Manager, the user will not be able to see quarantined
emails or any other data for any other user. The exception is that Report Managers will be
able to see data in the reports if it is user-specific (for example in the
User Activity
Report
window.
Question: I see email addresses in the User Management window that
aren’t real or that I didn’t add.
Answer:
Email Protection delivers all email that is addressed to your Domains, unless the
email is rejected by your inbound servers or the email has been filtered because it violated
a defined policy. This type of email delivery is known as “proxy service.”
If the
User Creation
field is set to
SMTP Discovery
, Email Protection will auto-create
user accounts for new email addresses if
all
the following are true:
•
A specified number (default is 3) emails that were not quarantined or denied have
been received within a day for the new email address.
•
Emails that had content stripped, but were sendable can still trigger automatic user
account creation.
•
Emails that would have been quarantined, but were received before the user
account was created, will be denied.
•
Your inbound server accepted delivery of the emails.
•
A user account does not already exist for the new email address.
•
The new email address was not sent to an alias domain name.
Thus, you will see email addresses in the
User Management
window that may be invalid
in your system, but that your inbound server accepted. You can either manually delete
these user accounts or they will be automatically deleted after a default time period if no
sign-ins or user-level configurations are detected for these user accounts. Sign-ins from
the Spam Quarantine Report are included.
Because user accounts might be continually created and deleted, both manually and
automatically, and that a single user may use multiple email addresses, billing is not
determined by the number of user accounts in a Domain. Billing is determined by the
value entered in the
Total Billed Users Qty
field during Domain creation or edit.
If you want to disable the automatic creation of user accounts, do one of the following: