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Overview of Email features Email Policies Task - Create a new scanning policy Your appliance uses the policies you create to scan the email messages sent through the appliance. You can create multiple policies to control the way different users use email, or to specify different actions based on specific circumstances. Use this task to create a new scanning policy. 1 Click Email | Email Policies | Scanning Policies. 2 Select the required protocol using steps in Task - View policies for the SMTP or POP3 protocols. 3 Click Add policy... 4 In the Scanning Policies - New Policy page, enter the following information: • A name for the policy. • An optional description for the new policy. • Where the new policy inherits its settings from. If you have a similar policy already set up, select this to allow its settings to be inherited by the new policy. • Choose if the policy is to apply to inbound or outbound email traffic. (SMTP only) • Select the required Match logic for the policy. • Select the type of rule, how it should match and the value that the rule tests against. • If required, add additional rules, and use the and buttons to correctly order the rules. 5 Click OK. The new rule is added to the top of the list of policies. Task - Change the scanning order of my policies The appliance uses the order of the policies to evaluate the email messages being scanned. A message will first be evaluated against the rule with the Order value of 1, and if this does not trigger, it is then evaluated against policy 2 and so on until it is evaluated by the default scanning policy. If you have created more than two scanning policies, you can change the order that your appliance uses the policies to evaluate email traffic. This is achieved by moving the relevant policies up or down the policy list. The default policy always appears at the bottom of the list of policies. You cannot change its position. 1 Click Email | Email Policies | Scanning Policies. 2 Identify the policy to move in the evaluation order. 3 In the Move column, click or to move the policy one step. If the identified policy is either at the top of the evaluation order, or is next to the default policy, then one or other of the icons will not be available for selection. McAfee Email and Web Security Appliances 5.6.0 Product Guide 113

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Task — Create a new scanning policy
Your appliance uses the policies you create to scan the email messages sent through the appliance.
You can create multiple policies to control the way different users use email, or to specify different
actions based on specific circumstances.
Use this task to create a new scanning policy.
1
Click
Email
|
Email Policies
|
Scanning Policies
.
2
Select the required protocol using steps in
Task — View policies for the SMTP or POP3 protocols
.
3
Click
Add policy...
4
In the
Scanning Policies — New Policy
page, enter the following information:
A name for the policy.
An optional description for the new policy.
Where the new policy inherits its settings from.
If you have a similar policy already set up, select this to allow its
settings to be inherited by the new policy.
Choose if the policy is to apply to inbound or outbound email traffic. (SMTP only)
Select the required
Match logic
for the policy.
Select the type of rule, how it should match and the value that the rule tests against.
If required, add additional rules, and use the
and
buttons to correctly order the rules.
5
Click
OK
.
The new rule is added to the top of the list of policies.
Task — Change the scanning order of my policies
The appliance uses the order of the policies to evaluate the email messages being scanned. A message
will first be evaluated against the rule with the Order value of 1, and if this does not trigger, it is then
evaluated against policy 2 and so on until it is evaluated by the default scanning policy.
If you have created more than two scanning policies, you can change the order that your appliance
uses the policies to evaluate email traffic. This is achieved by moving the relevant policies up or down
the policy list.
The default policy always appears at the bottom of the list of policies.
You cannot change its position.
1
Click
Email
|
Email Policies
|
Scanning Policies
.
2
Identify the policy to move in the evaluation order.
3
In the
Move
column, click
or
to move the policy one step.
If the identified policy is either at the top of the evaluation order, or is
next to the default policy, then one or other of the icons will not be
available for selection.
Overview of Email features
Email Policies
McAfee Email and Web Security Appliances 5.6.0 Product Guide
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