Symantec 10490452 Administration Guide - Page 206

206 Feature Cross-Reference About email filtering and message handling options Table A-4 New features for Symantec Brightmail Antispam users Category Features Description Improved reporting and monitoring Expanded administration capabilities Expanded virus monitoring Virus outbreak alerts, expanded logging of virus events Expanded logging Symantec Security Information Manager (SSIM) logging support Global reject or pause During a virus outbreak, you can temporarily pause scanning until of message scanning new virus filters are in place. While the names of features are largely the same, you will find some changes to the organization of menus. Most importantly, you will now find a Policies menu at the top level, breaking out Group Policies (under the Settings menu in Symantec Brightmail Antispam 6.0.3), and including other items as well. See "About email filtering and message handling options" on page 206 for an updated explanation of how settings and policies interact. About email filtering and message handling options In Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0, there are five types of choices you can make about filtering options. These choices provide much greater flexibility, and it is important to understand how your choices for various options interact with each other, as follows: ■ Email Scanning Settings: Settings determine system-wide policies for handling email. These include: ■ Address Masquerading ■ Aliases ■ Spam Settings ■ Virus Settings ■ Invalid Recipients ■ Local Domains ■ Scanning (including Container Limits) ■ Filter Policies: Specific sets of conditions that identify categories of email, and specific sets of actions to take on those messages. You can specify multiple filter policies for the same email categories, and then use different filter policies for different groups of users. Filter policies include: ■ Spam policies ■ Virus policies