Configuring Profiles

Configuring mail routing profiles in a session profile

If you enable the advanced MTA control feature in session profiles (see “Configuring advanced MTA control settings” on page 500), the Mail Routing tab will appear.

To configure a mail routing profile to be used in a session profile

  1. Go to Profile > Session > Mail Routing.
  2. Click New.
  3. Enter a profile name.
  4. Click New to configure the mail routing settings.
  5. In the popup window, specify the recipient domain, the relay type (host or MX record), and the port number.
  6. Click Create.

Configuring access control profiles in a session profile

If you enable the advanced MTA control feature in session profiles (see “Configuring advanced MTA control settings” on page 500), the Access Control tab will appear.

To configure an access control profile to be used in a session profile

  1. Go to Profile > Session > Access Control.
  2. Click New.
  3. Enter a profile name.
  4. Click New to configure the access control rule.
  5. In the popup window, configure the rule settings. These setting are identical to the system-wide access control rule settings. For details, see “Configuring access control rules” on page 456.
  6. Click Create.

Configuring DSN profiles in a session profile

If you enable the advanced MTA control feature in session profiles (see “Configuring advanced MTA control settings” on page 500), the DSN tab will appear. Configure this setting to overwrite the global setting configured in “Configuring DSN options” on page 369.

To configure a DSN profile to be used in a session profile

  1. Go to Profile > Session > DSN.
  2. Click New.
  3. Enter a profile name.
  4. Specify if you want to send DSN email and when to send DSN email (after how many time of unsuccessful email sending retries).
  5. Click Create.

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6 thoughts on “Configuring Profiles

  1. Steve

    Hi, on these instructions it states “personal black lists and white lists” on page 620.”

    Where can i get the book to view page 620??

    Reply
  2. Laurent

    Hello,
    What about the confidence degree of Header Analysis (also called Deepheader Analysis)? The default value is 95.0, and statisticaly on dozen of emails, all the values are always within range 95,03- 95,09. What is really checked in headers ? In our organization (government – 5000 users) we have lots of SPAM catched but also lots of false positive catched by this feature…

    Reply
    1. Mike Post author

      Unfortunately the defaults are just “broad strokes”. A lot of tweaking is necessary to get things to where you are in your organization’s happy range of false positives vs missed spam.

      Reply
  3. Dormond

    Hello,
    Do we have some addtional info regarding heuristic filter ? It is quite tricky to proceed with fine tuning with this light description. In my case, default settings just catch anything (around 10 emails out of 150’000… Now I have decreased threshold value to 3.0 and increased percentage of rules to 50% and now it catches around 200 emails out of 750’000 … still no false-positive.

    Reply
  4. Laurent

    Hello,

    Is there a way to clear only one entry in the LDAP cache ? Since we have over 10’000 users and that there are multiple routers and FW between the SMTP Gateway and the LDAP servers we do not want to clear the whole cache.

    Reply

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