This first section of the documentation is directed at administrators who are new to PureMessage. In addition to complete installation and upgrade instructions, it provides an overview of the product and its functionality, and outlines various deployment scenarios.
The PureMessage Manager is a web-based graphical interface to PureMessage. Although there are some administrative tasks that can only be performed from the command line, the majority of tasks can be accomplished via the Manager.
The Administrator’s Reference provides an in-depth examination of PureMessage. PureMessage began as a Unix-based, command-line mail filtering tool, and it still retains many aspects of its origins.
This section describes the general PureMessage utilities, which provide installation, startup, general configuration, update, and uninstall capabilities.
This section describes the management of the services that provide PureMessage functionality. All of this functionality is available via the PureMessage Manager, so the command-line alternatives are presented for those who prefer to work from the command line and for troubleshooting.
This section describes the command-line programs and configuration files used to set up and manage multi-server PureMessage deployments. Server Groups make it possible to manage multi-server deployments from a single server, the Centralized Server Manager (CSM).
This section describes the setup and Management of the Groups Web Interface, which a system administrator can use to delegate selected tasks to other system administrators.
This section describes the customization and fine tuning of message filtering for viruses, spam, and organizational policy compliance.
This section describes management of the PureMessage quarantine, a temporary holding place for messages that are deemed potentially problematic by the PureMessage policy. Quarantined messages can then be reviewed, and released or deleted.
This section describes the options that can be made available to PureMessage end users, the people within your organization who are the senders and recipients of email that is processed by PureMessage.
This section describes the management of the log files that register activities and the activities that are logged. It also covers generation of reports that are drawn, in part, from this data.
This tutorial describes the syntax used in the policy script, analyzes the default PureMessage policy script, and shows examples of common policy script modifications.
The Regular Expressions Primer is a tutorial for those completely new to regular expressions. To familiarize you with regular expressions, this primer starts with the simple building blocks of the syntax and, through examples, builds to construct complex expressions.