You can create the email spam policies that determine the actions to be taken for specific spam conditions.
Symantec Brightmail Gateway installs with several preconfigured policies. You can use these policies as is, edit them to suit your needs, or create your own custom policies.
See Default email spam policies.
When you create a new spam policy, it is enabled by default.
See Enabling and disabling spam policies.
To create the policies that detect spam
On the Email Spam Policy page, in the Policy name box type a name for the spam policy.
Content filtering, spam, and virus policy names must be unique. For example, if you have a content filtering policy called "XYZ," you cannot have a spam policy or virus policy called "XYZ."
Under Conditions click the Apply to drop-down list and choose whether the policy is applied to inbound messages only, outbound messages only, or both.
Click the If the following condition is met drop-down list and select one of the following options:
Under Actions, click the Perform the following action drop-down list and select the action that you want to take on a message that meets the specified spam condition.
For some actions, you need to specify additional information.
Under Apply to the following groups, check one or more policy groups to which this policy should apply.