Configuring mail flow direction in Scanner email settings

Products

• Messaging Gateway

Issue/Introduction

The article describes on how to configure a scanner to filter inbound, outbound, or both inbound and outbound email.

Environment

Symantec Messaging Gateway

Cause

Scanner email settings describes the tasks that you can perform to configure and modify Scanner inbound email settings
and outbound email settings. You can perform any of these tasks as needed in any order.

Resolution

To configure mail flow direction for a Scanner:

1. In the Control Center, click Administration > Hosts > Configuration.
2. On the Host Configuration page, click the box next to the Scanner you want to define and then click Edit.
3. On the Edit Host Configuration page, click the SMTP tab.
4. In the Host name field, modify the name for the Scanner if necessary to identify it by its role.
5. In the Host definition field, modify the definition of the Scanner to reflect its new role.
6. Select the option that describes the role of this Scanner.

• Inbound mail filtering only – Configure inbound SMTP Scanner settings.
• Outbound mail filtering only – Configure outbound SMTP Scanner settings.

7. At the bottom of the page, check Apply above settings to all hosts if you want settings to apply to all Scanners.
8. Click Save to store your changes.

On the Add Policy Group or Edit Policy Group page, you must also enable scanning for each filtering type and mail flow
direction. You then choose the policies that you want to apply for the enabled mail flow directions. Symantec Messaging
Gateway includes default policies for malware, threat defense, spam, and unwanted email. These default policies are
automatically enabled and are assigned to the Default policy group of all users during installation. Each policy includes
the mail flow direction where the policy can be applied.

You can override default policies by creating new policy groups.