Symantec 10765539 Planning Guide - Page 14

14 Introducing Symantec Mail Security for SMTP Changes for Symantec Brightmail Antispam users Table 1-4 the new features listed in Table 1-1, additional new features for Symantec Brightmail Antispam users only are listed in Table 1-4. New features for Symantec Brightmail Antispam users Category Features Description Threat protection features Improved virus processing Outbound filtering LiveUpdate support for virus definitions, list of file types to exclude from virus scanning, expanded container limit controls Provides spam, virus, and content compliance filtering on outbound email messages. Specify different outbound and inbound policies for each user group. Flexible mail management More flexible Group Policies Use LDAP groups to populate groups for Group Policies. Multiple actions Specify more than one action to take on specific categories of messages to specific groups of recipients. Inbound and Expanded content outbound compliance filtering content controls capabilities Expanded set of actions available on filtered messages, support for multiple actions on the same messages Attachment blocking Create lists of attachment types to remove. Strip attachments within container files. Annotations Automatically append or prepend text, such as legal disclaimers or marketing tag lines, to messages. Notifications 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. Improved reporting and monitoring Expanded virus monitoring Expanded logging Virus outbreak alerts, expanded logging of virus events Symantec Security Information Manager (SSIM) logging support Expanded administration capabilities 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 the Symantec Mail Security for SMTP Administration Guide for an updated explanation of how settings and policies interact.