• SonicOS 7.1
• About SonicOS
  • Working with SonicOS
  • SonicOS Workflow
  • How to Use the SonicOS Administration Guides
  • Guide Conventions
• Anti-Spam
  • About Anti-Spam
    • What is Anti-Spam?
    • Benefits
  • How Does the Anti-Spam Service Work?
    • GRID Network
      • Benefits
      • GRID Connection Management with Sender IP Reputation and Connection Management Precedence Order
    • Address and Service Objects
      • Objects Created When the Anti-Spam Service is Enabled
  • Purchasing an Anti-Spam License
• Status
• Settings
  • Activating Anti-Spam
  • Installing the Junk Store
  • Configuring Email Threat Categories
  • Configuring Access Lists
    • Configuring User-defined Access Lists
    • Adding a Host to the Access Lists
  • Configuring Advanced Settings
• Relay Domains
  • About Open Relay
  • Listing Allowed Relay Domains
• Junk Box Messages
  • Information Displayed in the Junk Box Messages Table
  • Managing Junk Box Messages
• Junk Box Settings
• Junk Box Summary
  • Managing the Junk Box Summary
• User View Setup
  • Configuring User View Setup
• Address Books
  • About the Tabs
    • Allowed Lists
    • Blocked Lists
  • Adding Items to the Allowed or Blocked List
  • Deleting Items from the Allowed or Blocked List
  • Importing Address Book Entries
  • Exporting Address Book Entries
  • Searching the Allowed and Blocked Lists
• Manage Users
  • Updating the User Table
  • Enabling Non-LDAP User Authentication
  • Viewing Users
    • Selecting the Type of User to View
    • Selecting a Server’s Users to View
    • Finding a User
  • Adding Users
    • Adding Users Manually to the User Table
    • Importing Users to the User Table
  • Signing In as a User
• LDAP Configuration
  • Adding an LDAP Server
    • Configuring LDAP Queries
    • Adding LDAP Mappings
  • Editing an LDAP Server Configuration
  • Deleting an LDAP Server
• Advanced
  • Downloading System/Log Files
  • Selecting Log Settings
• Downloads
• SonicWall Support
  • About This Document

Configuring Email Threat Categories

After activating Anti-Spam, set your preferences. After these are configured, your email is filtered and sorted according to your configuration.

To set default settings for users’ messages

1. On the POLICY | Anti-Spam > Settings page, scroll to the Email Threat Categories section.

   

2. Choose default settings for messages that contain or may contain spam, phishing, and virus issues; see Email Threat Category Settings: Options for options available in the drop-down menus:

   • Likely Spam (default: Store in Junk Box)
   • Definite Spam (default: Permanently Delete)
   • Likely Phishing (default: Tag with [LIKELY_PHISHING])
   • Definite Phishing (default: Store in Junk Box)
   • Likely Virus (default: Store in Junk Box)

   • Definite Virus (default: Permanently Delete)

     Email Threat Category Settings: Options

     Category	Action
     Filtering off	Anti-Spam does not scan and filter any email for this threat category, so all the email messages are delivered to the recipients.
     Tag With [TAG]	The email is tagged with a term in the subject line: [LIKELY_SPAM] [SPAM] [LIKELY_PHISHING] [PHISHING] [LIKELY_VIRUS] [VIRUS] Selecting this option allows the user to have control of the email and can junk it if it is unwanted.
     Store in Junk Box	The email message is stored in the Junk Box. It can be unjunked by users and administrators with appropriate permissions.
     Permanently Delete	The email message is permanently deleted. If you select this option, your organization risks losing wanted email.

   If you are using more than one domain, choose the Multiple Domains option and contact SonicWall or your SonicWall reseller for more information.

3. Click Accept.