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Settings
When you click this button, the Mail Anti-Virus Settings window appears. On the Mail Anti-Virus Settings window, you have two tabs – Scan Options and Archiving.
Scan Options
This tab allows you to select the emails to be scanned and action that should be performed when a security threat is encountered during a scan operation.
This tab helps you to configure the following setting:
Block Attachments Types
This section provides you with a pre-defined list of file types that are often used by virus writers to embed viruses. Any email attachment having an extension included in this list will be blocked or deleted by eScan at the host level. You can add file extensions to this list as per your requirement. As a best practice, you should avoid deleting the file extensions that are present in the Block Attachments Types list by default. You can also configure advanced settings required to scan emails for malicious code. There are three options present in this setting:
- Add: You can add the extension that need to be blocked while scanning the emails.
- Delete: You can delete the extension from the Block Attachments Types list by default.
- Exclude List: You can click this button to whitelist attachments.
Action
This section helps you configure the actions to be performed on infected emails which are as follows:
- Disinfect: This option is selected by default. Click this option if you want Mail Anti-Virus to disinfect infected emails or attachments.
- Delete: Click this option if you want Mail Anti-Virus to delete infected emails or attachments.
In both of the above cases you can Quarantine Infected Files which is selected by default. Select this check box if you want Mail Anti-Virus to quarantine infected emails or attachments. The default path for storing quarantined emails or attachments is C:\Program Files\eScan\QUARANT which you can specify in Quarantine Path. However, you can specify a different path for storing quarantined files, if required.
Port Settings for eMail
This section allows you to specify the ports for incoming and outgoing emails, so that eScan can scan the emails sent or received through those ports. You can configure the ports for the mail connections:
- Outgoing Mail (SMTP): You need to specify a port number for SMTP. The default port number for SMTP is 25.
- Incoming Mail (POP3): You need to specify a port number for POP3. The default port number for POP3 is 110.
- Scan Outgoing Mails: Select this check box if you want the Mail Anti-Virus to scan outgoing emails.
Archiving
This tab helps you configure settings for archiving emails and email attachments.
The following configuration options are available:
Archive eMails
This check box option helps you archive or back up all scanned emails that you have sent or received. Mail Anti-Virus provides you with the facility of backing up your emails to a given folder. The default path for storing archived emails is %appdata%\MicroWorld\eScan\Archive. You can also change the default path by clicking on Browse button and provide the path.
Click on View Archived eMails button to view archived mails in report format.
It have the following fields:
- From: Contains the email address of the sender.
- To: Contains the email address of the recipients.
- Cc: Contains the email address of the recipients cced in the email.
- Received: Gives you the email address of the recipients who received the email.
- Size: Gives you the size of the email in bytes.
- Attachment: Gives you the details of the attachments in the email.
- Filename: Gives you the Filenames of the attachment present in the email.
- URLs: Gives you the URLs present in the email if any.
Archive Attachments
This check box option helps you to archive or back up all sent or received email attachments to a given folder. However, to specify the path of the backup folder, you need to select the Archive Attachments check box. By default, the Attachments Archive Directory, Do not Archive attachments of type, and Browse button appear dimmed. These fields are available only when you select the Archive Attachments check box. The default path for storing archived email attachments is %AppData%\MicroWorld\eScan\Archive\Attachments that can be changed if needed. At times, you may not require email attachments of a specific file type. In that case, you can exclude certain file types, such as *.VCF, *.HTM, and *.HTML, from being archived by adding them to the Do not Archive attachments of type list. This option provides two buttons:
- Add: You can add extension that you want to exclude from being archived.
- Delete: You can delete the extension that you want to remove from the exclude list.
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At the bottom of the screen of all the tabs — Default, OK, Cancel, and Apply buttons are present that you can use after configuring the settings based on your requirement. |
- Default: Click this button to apply the default settings.
- OK: Click this button after you click the Apply button to apply the configured settings.
- Cancel: Click this button to cancel the configured settings or to close the window.
- Apply: Click this button to apply the configured settings.
