Domain Policies

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Domain Policies

Use the SecurityA service provided by GFI OneConnect that protects your inbound email from viruses, filters out spam and provides mail monitoring features. Domains Policy settings to apply anti-virus, anti-spam, and other filtering mechanisms on emails processed on a per-domain basis.

DomainAddress or URL of a particular network. Policies page

To access the Domain Policies screen:

Login to GFI OneConnect using an Administrator account and navigate to Manage > Security.
Key in your Administrator account credentials in the Security login screen.
Choose the Domain Group Administrator role from the top-right corner Role field.

Navigate to Anti-SpamAn irrelevant or unsolicited email sent over for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware, etc. Engine > Domains Policies.
Choose a domain and click the icon to configure the domain's filtering options. These domain settings are inherited by all users in those domains.

Edit Domain Policy dialog

Configure the following options:

Option	Description	Default value
Spam Filtering	Specifies whether spam filtering is enabled for the selected domain. Toggle Enable / Disable to switch this option on or off.	ON
Consider mail spam when score is greater than	When scanning messages for spam, GFI OneConnect Security applies various checks to determine an overall spam score for each message. Emails scoring above this threshold are considered as spam. Emails scoring below the threshold will be considered legitimate and passed onto the recipient(s) If you find this setting too aggressive or not aggressive enough, then you can change the threshold.	5
Spam should be	Action to perform when a message is classified as spam: Quarantined: The message is moved to the GFI OneConnect Security QuarantineA email database where emails detected as spam and/or malware are stored in a controlled enviornment. Quarantined emails are not a threat to the network. It appears in the recipient's Quarantine Report and may be later released from the quarantine if it is deemed by the user to be a false positive. Passed (Tagged): Spam emails will be passed onto the end recipients, but headers are added to the message so that it will be possible to filter messages on the backend mail server and/or on the end-recipients mail client. Rejected: The message will be rejected. The message are dropped before they are received by the mail server. Those messages cannot be recovered.	Quarantined
Discard Spam scoring above	Messages scoring above the specified score will be automatically discarded. This option is only available when the action is set to Quarantined.	999 (no messages will be discarded)
Spam Modifies Subject	Enable this option to prepend text to the Subject header, indicating that the message has been identified as spam. Specify an appropriate Spam Subject Tag to be added to the subject. This option is only available when the action is set to Passed (Tagged).	OFF
Add X-Spam headers to non-spam mails	Specifies if additional headers are added to inbound messages, indicating the result of the spam analysis. The headers added are: X-Spam-Status: This will show if the message exceeded the spam threshold and the score that it achieved. It will also list what rules were fired by the anti-spam engine. X-Spam-Score: Lists the spam score achieved. Toggle Enable / Disable to switch this option on or off.	ON
Virus Filtering	Specifies whether virus filtering is enabled for the selected domain. Toggle Enable / Disable to switch this option on or off.	ON
Viruses should be	The action to perform when a message is identified as containing a virus. Refer to the actions documented in the anti-spam section above.	Quarantined
Attachment Type Filtering	Specifies whether the default GFI OneConnect message attachment policy is applied to messages received by recipients in the selected domain. Toggle Enable / Disable to switch this option on or off. The blocked attachment types are: .vbs, .scr, .pif, .js, flv, .exe, .dll, .com, .cmd, and .bat.	ON
Banned Attachments should be	The action to perform when a message is blocked by Attachment Type Filtering: Quarantined: The message is moved to the GFI OneConnect Security Quarantine. It appears in the recipient's Quarantine Report and may be later released from the quarantine if it is deemed by the user to be a false positive. Passed (Tagged): Spam emails will be passed onto the end recipients, but headers are added to the message so that it will be possible to filter messages on the backend mail server and/or on the end-recipients mail client. Rejected: The message will be rejected. The message are dropped before they are received by the mail server. Those messages cannot be recovered.	Quarantined
ArchiveA feature provided by GFI OneConnect that can archive all internal and external email into the GFI OneConnect Data Center. Clean Email	Enable this setting to store all clean messages received by this domain in the history. (Go to Reporting > History to view clean emails.) Toggle Enable / Disable to switch this option on or off.	OFF
Quarantine Report	This field specifies whether quarantine reports should be generated for recipients in this domain. A quarantine report will be generated for each recipient who has at least one email quarantined. Toggle Enable / Disable to switch this option on or off.	OFF
Language	If enabling quarantine reports, select the default report language. Recipients may change the language of their report by logging into GFI OneConnect Security and changing their preferences.	English
Email report every	If enabling quarantine reports, select the frequency of the reports. Reports may be generated every day, every weekday (Monday to Friday), every Friday, or every month. Recipients may change the frequency of their reports by logging into GFI OneConnect Security and changing their preferences.	Day
Report contains	If enabling quarantine reports, choose the items to show in the report. Recipients may change this option of their report by logging into GFI OneConnect Security and changing their preferences. The report may include: All quarantined items New items since last report only All quarantined msgs (except viruses) New items since last report (except viruses)	New items since last report only
Exclude spam mails scoring above	Usually, users are only interested in messages that fall just above the spam threshold to look for false positivesLegitimate emails that are incorrectly identified as spam.. Spam messages scoring above a certain threshold can be unequivocally deemed as spam. If users get a significant amount of spam, then to keep the report size manageable you can exclude spam messages above, for example 30. This setting is set to 999 by default, meaning that no messages will be excluded (as a message cannot score that high).	999 (no messages will be excluded)
Reset settings to default	Reset the policy to default values.

Click Apply to save settings.

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