Rule action

Quarantine message

The message will not be delivered to the recipient and will be moved to the mail quarantine. Enable Can be released by users if you want to allow non-administrator users to release emails quarantined by this rule (using the web interface or quarantine reports).

Quarantine attachment

Puts the email attachment into file quarantine. The email will be delivered to the recipient with the attachment truncated to zero length.

Delete attachment

Deletes a message attachment. The message will be delivered to the recipient without the attachment.

Reject message

Deletes a message. For incoming emails received via SMTP, an NDR (Non-Delivery Report) should be generated by the sending server.

Drop message silently

Deletes a message without generating an NDR.

Set SCL value

Changes or sets a specific SCL value.

Send event notification to administrator

Sends event notifications to administrator. You need to enable the Send event notification by email feature. You can then customize the format of event messages (use the tooltip for suggestions) while creating the rule. Also, you can select severity for event messages; however, this depends on the minimum verbosity setting in the Email notifications section.

Send email notification

Sends email notifications according to your defined parameters. Specify Recipient (you can use the variable %Recipients% to deliver the notification to the original recipients of the email message). Specify the Sender, Subject, and Format of event messages (use the tooltip for suggestions). This action is available for Mail transport protection only.

Skip Antispam scan

Message will not be scanned by the Antispam engine.

Skip Antivirus scan

Message will not be scanned by the Antivirus engine.

Skip Anti-Phishing scan

Message will not be parsed by the Anti-Phishing protection.

Skip ESET LiveGuard Advanced scan

Message will not be validated by the ESET LiveGuard Advanced protection.

Evaluate other rules

Allows the evaluation of other rules, enabling the user to define multiple sets of conditions and multiple actions to take given the conditions.

Log to events

Writes information about the applied rule to the program log and defines the event message format (use the tooltip for suggestions).

If you configure the action type Log to events for Mailbox database protection with the parameter %IPAddress%, the Event column in the Log files will be empty for this specific event. This is because there is no IP address on the Mailbox database protection level. Some options are not available on all protection levels:

%IPAddress% - ignored by On-demand mailbox database scan and Mailbox database protection.

%Mailbox% - ignored by Mail transport protection.

The following options apply to Attachment processing rules only:

%Attname% - ignored by Filtering rules and Result processing rules.

%Attsize% - ignored by Filtering rules and Result processing rules.

Add header field

Adds a custom string to a message header.

Add subject prefix

Adds a prefix to a subject.

Replace attachment with action information

Replaces an attachment with a text file that contains detailed information about an action taken.

Remove header fields

Removes fields from the message header according to specified parameters.

Delete message

Deletes an infected message.

Move message to folder

The message will be moved to the specific folder.

Move message to trash

Puts an email message into the trash folder on the email client's side.

Apply DMARC policy

If a DMARC result condition is met, the email message is handled according to the policy specified in the DMARC DNS record for the sender's domain.