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POLICY MANAGER

The Policy Manager tab

THE POLICY MANAGER TAB

This chapter explains how to use the Policy Manager tab to configure anything to do with the management of e-mail messages that pass through RiskFilter. By controlling who has policies applied to them and what these policies actually do, you can fine-tune your filtering to exactly match your company’s needs.

TERMINOLOGY USED

The following terminology is used in this chapter:

DFP (Digital Fingerprint) – Compares mail messages to known spam from different categories.

Heuristics – Uses regular expressions to determine the likelihood that an e-mail message is actually Spam.

LexiRules – Analyses words, phrases and patterns commonly found in spam to identify e-mail messages as possible spam.

WHAT CAN BE CONFIGURED IN THE POLICY MANAGER TAB?

The Policy Manager tab is where you set up your filtering policies. You can use the ready-made filters supplied with the product or you can create your own filters.

Figure 3 - 1 The Policy Manager tab

Policy Manager enables you to:

Add and remove groups of users and addresses.

Create and manage queues for isolated e-mails to be stored in.

Set up dictionaries that enable RiskFilter to search for specific words in a message.

Configure global policies that apply to everyone.

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