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GFI MailEssentials 8 Content Filtering | 160
Option Description
Quarantine
email
Stores blocked emails in the Quarantine Store. You can subsequently review (approve/delete) all the
quarantined emails. For more information, refer to Quarantine (page 180).
Delete
email
Deletes blocked emails.
Move to
folder on
disk
Moves the email to a folder on disk. Key in the full folder path where to store blocked emails.
IMPORTANT
Actions always affect the whole email containing the blocked content, even if there is
other content (such as attachments) that do not trigger this rule.
NOTE
When GFI MailEssentials is installed on same machine as Microsoft
®
Exchange 2003, GFI
MailEssentials may not be able to block outbound emails, but instead replaces the
blocked content with a threat report.
3. Select Send a sanitized copy of the original email to recipient(s) to choose whether to send a
copy of the blocked email to the recipients but with the malicious content removed.
4. GFI MailEssentials can send email notifications whenever an email triggers this filter. To enable
this feature, select any of the following options:
Option Description
Notify
administrator
Notify the administrator whenever this engine blocks an email. For more information, refer to
Administrator email address (page 219).
Notify local
user
Notify the email local recipients about the blocked email.
5. To log the activity of this engine to a log file select Log occurrence to this file. In the text box
specify path and file name to a custom location on disk where to store the log file. By default,
log files are stored in:
<GFI MailEssentials installation
path>\GFI\MailEssentials\EmailSecurity\Logs\<EngineName>.log
Step 4: Specifying users to whom this rule applies
1. By default, the rule is applied to all email users. GFI MailEssentials, however, allows you to
apply this rule to a custom list of email users specified in the Users / Folders tab.