SonicWALL 4.5 manual Using the Email Security Service, „ Configuring a policy for email security

7 Using the Email Security Service

The email security service in Enforced Client Advanced scans messages before they are received by client computers and quarantines detections. Your service checks for spam, phishing scams, viruses, directory harvest attacks, and other email-borne threats in messages and attachments.

The email security service resides outside your network, requiring no system resources. Your company’s mail exchange (MX) record is redirected through SonicWALL’s servers. There, your email traffic is scanned before entering your network, with less than a one-second delay in transit.

The email security service provides:

„Protection from email-borne threats — The flood of email threats is stopped before entering your network.

„Real-time,around-the-clock email security — Email is processed all day, every day in real time through a highly secure system architecture that operates with no detectable latency.

„Simplified management — Centralized, web-based policy management allows you to configure comprehensive policies for spam, viruses, and content-filtering (for inappropriate words and phrases). You can also view reports on email usage and check quarantined messages.

To use the email security service, your company needs to have its own mail domain, such as yourdomain.com, with a static IP address and a dedicated email server, either in-house or hosted by an ISP.

This section describes these features of the email security service:

„Activating the email security service

„Using the portal

„Setting up your account

„Viewing your email protection status

„Configuring a policy for email security

„Viewing reports for the email security service

„Managing quarantined email

„Getting more information

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