Add an SMTP spam scan policy
With SMTP spam scan policies, you can specify filter criteria, action, and encryption for senders’ and recipients’ emails.
- Go to Email > Policies, click Add a policy and then click SMTP spam scan.
- Enter a name.
- Specify the senders’ and recipients’ email address groups or domain groups. Specify an exact match or keyword match.
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Specify the filter criteria based on which the policy applies
the specified action.
Option Description Inbound email is
Criteria for spam, probable spam, virus outbreak, or probable virus outbreak
Outbound email is Criteria for spam, probable spam, virus outbreak, or probable virus outbreak
Source IP/network address
Sender’s IP address or network address
Destination IP/network address Recipient’s IP address or network address Sender remote blacklist Select the RBL group to check for sender Message size
Upper or lower limit of email size for scanning
Message header
Header criteria
For Other, enter the details.
Specify an exact match or keyword match. Specify the keyword.
Data control list Select the data control list. Applies only to outbound emails. None
XG Firewall applies the action that you specify to all emails between the specified senders and recipients.
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Specify the action.
Option Description Reject Rejects email and notifies sender
Accept Delivers email
Select the SPX template.
Change recipient Specify a recipient to send the email to. Emails won’t be delivered to the recipient specified in the email.
Prefix subject Adds prefix to subject and delivers email. Select the SPX template.
Note You can specify a prefix that indicates the filter criteria. For example, if you specify the prefix “Probable spam” to the subject “Test email”, recipients receive an email with the subject “Probable spam: Test email”.Drop Drops email without notifying sender
Quarantine Quarantines email
Note You can apply SPX encryption only to outbound emails. - Click Save.