Table 1-1
New features for Symantec Mail Security (all users)
(continued)
Description
Features
Category
Support for double-byte character sets.
Language autodetection of messages for Quarantine
and of subject encodings for message handling.
Support for non-ASCII LDAP source descriptions.
Support for
non-ASCII character
sets
Enhanced
localization
capabilities
Functional overview
Each Symantec Mail Security Scanner uses the following three separate message
transfer agents MTAs:
The component that sends inbound and
outbound messages that have already been
filtered to their required destinations. To do
this, the delivery MTA uses the filtering
results and the configuration settings for
relaying inbound and outbound mail.
Delivery MTA
The component that receives inbound mail
and forwards it to the Filtering Hub for
processing.
Inbound MTA
The component that receives outbound mail
and forwards it to the Filtering Hub for
processing.
Outbound MTA
You can deploy Symantec Mail Security in different configurations to best suit
the size of your network and your email processing needs.
Note:
Symantec Mail Security provides neither mailbox access for end users nor
message storage. It is not intended for use as the only MTA in your email
infrastructure.
Each Symantec Mail Security host can be deployed in the following ways:
Deployed as a Scanner, a Symantec Mail Security host filters email
for viruses, spam, and noncompliant messages. You can deploy
Scanners on exisiting email or groupware server(s).
Scanner
About Symantec Mail Security
Functional overview
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