6.2 Understanding Policy Groups

A policy group is a group of rules that share base User Matching conditions and a schedule of times when they apply. When MailMarshal is processing email, the conditions defined for a policy group must be met before any rule in that policy group is evaluated.

You can choose to use just a few policy groups, or many. For example, you could use one policy group to contain rules that apply to all messages outbound from the organization, and another policy group to contain rules that apply to all inbound messages. If your organization is divided into departments, you can also use policy groups to group rules governing email to and from each department.

Some default policy groups and rules are provided with MailMarshal. You should make changes and additions to meet your needs. Trustwave recommends a minimum of two policy groups: one for incoming email and one for outgoing email.

If you have more than one policy group, you can choose the order in which MailMarshal processes the groups.

You can set a schedule for a Content Analysis Policy or Connection Policy group. Any rules in the policy group will only be enabled at the scheduled times. You can choose to apply one or more of three different scheduling options:

•A repeating weekly schedule

•An absolute starting date and time

•An absolute ending date and time

To create a policy group:

1.In the left pane of the Management Console, select Email Policy and then select a type of policy.

2.Click Add.

3.On the General tab, enter a name and optional schedule information for this policy group.

4.On the Filtering tab, select the User Matching conditions for this policy group. If MailMarshal needs more information to define a condition, the description of the condition includes a hyperlink. Click the hyperlink to open a user matching condition panel that allows you to enter the required information.