Symantec 10490452 Administration Guide - Page 203

New features for Symantec Mail Security for SMTP and Symantec Brightmail Antispam

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Feature Cross-Reference 203 Changes for Symantec Mail Security for SMTP users Table A-1 New features for Symantec Mail Security for SMTP and Symantec Brightmail Antispam Category Features Description 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 over Quarantine size limits Control which hosts and networks can access your Control Center. Specify user-based and total limits, configure automatic message deletions. Changes for Symantec Mail Security for SMTP users Table A-2 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. New features for Symantec Mail Security for SMTP users Category Features Description Flexible mail management Centralized, Web- Use the Control Center to manage all aspects of email management and based administration 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 Improved Strip attachments within container files. Search within attachments outbound attachment blocking using regular expressions. content controls 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.

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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.