Email Protection Administrator Guide
Define an Attachment Filter
November 2012
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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.
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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:
1
Click
Email Protection | Policies
.
2
Select the policy you want to change.
3
Click
Attachments
.
The Attachments: File Types window is displayed.
4
Click
Filename Policies
.
The Filename Policies window is displayed.
5
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:
•
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.
