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Rule action

You can add actions for messages and/or attachments that match rule conditions.


note

You can to add multiple actions for one rule.

The following is a list of available actions for Mail transport protection, Mailbox database protection and On-demand mailbox database scan (some of the options might not show up depending on your selected conditions):

Action name

On-access filter

On-demand database scan

Descriptions

Quarantine file

Moves file into quarantine, even if antivirus quarantine is disabled.

Delete

File is deleted from the database.

Mark for deletion

Will not upload the file on upload attempt, will delete file during indexing, will mark the file for deletion on download attempt.

Block

File upload or download is blocked.

Send event notification

Sends event notification to the administrator, enable Send event notification by email and define the format of event messages (use the tooltip for suggestions).

Evaluate other rules

Allows the evaluation of other rules, providing the administrator with the ability to define multiple sets of conditions and multiple actions to take given conditions. If this is disabled, no rules will be evaluated but antivirus scan will still be performed.

Log to events

Writes information about the applied rule to Events log. You can choose the Severity and define the format of event messages (use the tooltip for suggestions).

Skip Antivirus scan

File will not be scanned by the antivirus engine.

Do not evaluate other rules

If this option is used as an action, it will skip any further rules that would normally follow.