Response

Email protection provides control of email communications received through the POP3 and IMAP protocols. Using the plugin for Microsoft Outlook and other email clients, ESET Server Security provides control of all communications from the email client (POP3, MAPI, IMAP, HTTP).

When examining incoming messages, the program uses all the advanced scanning methods included in the ThreatSense scanning engine. This means that detection of malicious programs takes place even before being matched against the virus detection database. Scanning of POP3 and IMAP protocol communications is independent of the email client used.

Action to be performed on infected email

•No action—If enabled, the program will identify infected attachments, but will leave emails without taking any action.

•Delete email—The program will notify the user about infiltration(s) and delete the message.

•Move email to the Deleted items folder—Infected emails will be moved automatically to the Deleted items folder.

•Move email to folder—Infected emails will be moved automatically to the specified folder.

Folder

Specify the custom folder where you want to move infected emails when detected.

After an email has been checked, a notification with the scan result can be appended to the message. You can select Append tag messages to received and read email or Append tag messages to sent email.

On rare occasions, tag messages may be omitted in problematic HTML messages or if messages are forged by malware. The tag messages can be added to received and read email, sent email or both.

The available options are:

•Never—No tag messages will be added at all.

•When a detection occurs—Only messages containing malicious software will be marked as checked (default).

•To all email when scanned—The program will append messages to all scanned email.

Update subject of received and read email / Update subject of sent email—Enable this option to add custom text specified below to the message.

Text to add to subject of detected email—Edit this template if you want to modify the subject prefix format of an infected email. This function will replace the message subject Hello with the following format: "[detection %DETECTIONNAME%] Hello. The variable %DETECTIONNAME% represents the detection.