How to enforce actions based on the...

Article updated on 22 January, 2008

How to enforce actions based on the results returned by AntiVirus and AntiSpam filters enabled in AXIGEN

Based on the results returned by AntiVirus & AntiSpam filters, the AXIGEN Mail Server can be configured to enforce different policies on the e-mail traffic such as Deliver/Move to Trash/Discard.

Enforcing AntiVirus actions can be done at the server level from the WebAdmin interface -> by accessing the Security & Filtering context -> AntiVirus and AntiSpam -> AntiVirus Actions section.
From this new section two types of policies ca be enabled based: for messages that are not cleanable and also for suspicious messages. You can for example ensure that malicious data will not be delivered to the hosted accounts by setting a Discard action for infected e-mails while deferring suspicious e-mails to let's say the Trash folder by a Move to Trash action or even Discard such messages if required.

In order to adjust the AntiSpam configuration in AXIGEN you should access from the WebAdmin interface -> the Security & Filtering context -> AntiVirus and AntiSpam -> AntiSpam Configuration section. In this section you can set two the thresholds based on the spam score contained by each e-mail: for moving the messages into the SPAM folder and for deleting the message (Move to Trash). You can also configure a whitelist that contains e-mail addresses that should be excluded from these AntiSpam policies and thus ensuring that the e-mails from those senders will always be delivered into the INBOX folder of the intended recipient(s).

Releases: Mail Server 5.0.X
OS: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris
Distros: RPM based distros, RPM based distros with gcc4, Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, FreeBSD 5.4, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.8, OpenBSD 3.9, Solaris 10 x86, FreeBSD 6.1, Mandriva Linux, DEB based distros with gcc4, Yellow Dog, Solaris 10 SPARC