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SMTP quarantine

With SMTP quarantine, you can filter quarantined emails. You can delete or release emails from the quarantine area.

Basic filter

Specify filters.

  • Start and end dates: Specify the time during which emails were processed.
  • Sender/Recipient/Subject: Specify the keywords.

Filter by

Specify filters.

  • Blocked by RBL
  • Spam
  • Analyzed by Zero-day protection
  • Infected
  • Unscannable content or protected attachment
  • DKIM verification
  • Other
  • Blocked source IP
  • Blocked destination IP
  • Unscannable content or protected attachment
  • Oversized message
  • Blocked header
  • Blocked by RBL
  • Blocked by data protection
  • Spam
  • Infected
  • Other

SMTP quarantine data

You can do as follows:

  • Click Delete to delete filtered emails from the quarantine area.
  • Click Release to release filtered emails to your inbox.
  • Click Release and report for false positives marked as Spam or Probable spam. These are reported to SophosLabs.

Note

You can't release virus-infected emails and emails found malicious by Zero-day protection.

Note

To delete emails quarantined due to Zero-day protection analysis, you need read-write permission for Zero-day protection activity.

Total utilization: Percentage of the utilized quarantine area. When the quarantine repository is full, older emails are purged.

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