Sophos Email Appliance
Sophos Email Appliance
User assistance
  • About Your Email Appliance
  • Getting Started
  • Email Appliance Hardware
  • Dashboard
  • Configuration
  • Reports
  • Search
  • System Status
  • Using Help
  • Setup and Configuration Guide
  • Configuring Ports
  • Supported Browsers
  • Creating a Custom Web Service for SPX
  • Template Variables
  • Password Option/Template Variable Mismatches
  • Dialog Box Help
  • Glossary
  • Submit a Spam Sample
  • Sophos Outlook Add-in
  • Copyrights and Trademarks
  • Third party legal notices
  • Contact Sophos
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  • About Your Email Appliance

    The Sophos Email Appliance offers the best and most reliable gateway protection, while setting a new standard for effective and efficient management. Sophos appliances draw on twenty years of experience in enterprise threat management, delivering world-class threat protection in a compact and easy-to-manage format.

  • Getting Started
  • Email Appliance Hardware

    The ES1000, ES1100, ES4000, ES5000, and ES8000 are high-performance appliances that are designed to handle a large volume of email traffic.

  • Dashboard

    The Dashboard tab provides a quick overview of Email Appliance activity and status in six panels.

  • Configuration

    The Configuration tab provides access to pages for setting system options and performing administrative tasks.

    • Accounts
    • Policy
    • System
      • Updates
      • Alerts & Monitoring
      • Backup
      • Directory Services
      • Certificates
        • Adding a certificate to the Email Appliance
          • Upload Certificate
          • Initiating a Certificate Signing Request
          • Certificate Request
          • Certificate Details
        • Managing Existing Certificates
        • Deleting certificates from the Email Appliance
        • Configuring Trusted Certificate Authorities
        • Certificates and Certificate Authorities
        • Obtaining a Certificate for the Email Appliance
      • Clustering
      • Time Zone
      • Configuration Sync
    • Routing
    • Network
  • Reports

    The Reports tab provides performance statistics in the form of graphs and tables.

  • Search

    Use the Search tab to search the quarantine and logs. Select the type of search to perform from the top drop-down list on the Search In sidebar. Different Search Parameters are displayed, depending on the type of search selected.

  • System Status

    The System Status tab lets you monitor the health and performance of the Email Appliance.

  • Using Help

    The help system provides several tools for getting answers quickly while using the Email Appliance.

  • Setup and Configuration Guide

    The purpose of this guide is to assist you with the basic configuration steps in the Sophos™ Email Appliance Setup Wizard and some essential post-configuration tasks.

  • Configuring Ports

    To ensure the functionality of the Sophos™ Email Appliance, configure your network to allow access on the ports listed below.

  • Supported Browsers

    Find out which web browsers Sophos Email Appliance supports.

  • Creating a Custom Web Service for SPX

    You can create a web service that integrates with your existing authentication system to issue SPX passwords.

  • Template Variables

    Certain predefined policy variables are available for use in banners and headers. Others can be used only with certain types of rules. In addition, there are variables that are designed specifically for use in the SPX Template wizard.

  • Password Option/Template Variable Mismatches

    A warning message was displayed because you have edited the text on the Recipient Instructions page of the SPX Template Wizard, and it no longer matches the end user password options selected on the Password Options page of the wizard.

  • Dialog Box Help

    The following pages describe the various pop-up dialog boxes that are used throughout the Email Appliance administrator web interface.

  • Glossary
  • Submit a Spam Sample
  • Sophos Outlook Add-in

    The Sophos Outlook Add-in simplifies both the reporting of spam messages to Sophos and the encrypting of messages that contain sensitive or confidential information.

  • Copyrights and Trademarks
  • Third party legal notices
  • Contact Sophos
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  2. Configuration

    The Configuration tab provides access to pages for setting system options and performing administrative tasks.

  3. System
  4. Certificates
  5. Adding a certificate to the Email Appliance

Adding a certificate to the Email Appliance

To add a certificate to the Email Appliance:

  • On the Certificates page, click Add.

    The Add Certificate dialog box is displayed.

  • Either:
    • Select Upload existing certificate and private key if you already have a certificate pair.
    • Select Initiate Certificate Signing Request (CSR) if you need to obtain a certificate.
Related concepts
Encryption
Related reference
Certificates and Certificate Authorities
Obtaining a Certificate for the Email Appliance
Transport Layer Security (TLS) Email Encryption

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