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The Brightmail Oulook Plugin

Created: 21 Jan 2010 | 10 comments
TSE-JDavis's picture
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This is the Brightmail Outlook Plugin that is included with Mail Security for Exchange. It is also compatible with the Brightmail Appliance spam policy labeled "Deliver the message to the recipient's spam folder".

The problem is that this download is only included with Mail Security for Exchange and cannot be downloaded anywhere else.

Please see the following statement about supporting the Outlook Plugin. It is no longer supported, but still works with Exchange 2003.

Title: 'Symantec support policy statement for the Symantec Brightmail Outlook Plug-in'
Document ID: 2007011609410763
> Web URL: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-gate.nsf/...

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AdnanH's picture
21
Jan
2010
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Thanks for digging up the old

Thanks for digging up the old unsupported Outlook Plugin; who knows, one day it might get a new life.

TSE-JDavis's picture
21
Jan
2010
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I use it to route the

I use it to route the astadmin emails to a spam folder on my production machine. It works pretty OK. When I first log on for the week it doesn't usually catch them all, so I sometimes have to manually mark them as spam.

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May
2010
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I definitely can appreciate

I definitely can appreciate this tool as an option because SPAM mail can take up precious time when you are trying to sort through your messages each day.  By capturing the messages in a folder, they can easily be housed and deleted quickly.

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May
2010
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This is definitely a great

This is definitely a great tool but I feel the best option would be for all of the Brightmail products to all have the ability to add an SCL level to a messages so they will go to the Junk folder on Outlook.

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May
2010
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JDavis - if you are on

JDavis - if you are on Exch2007, there is a work around. Ian McShaneposted it.
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/idea/brigh...

TSE-JDavis's picture
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May
2010
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I was involved in that

I was involved in that conversation

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2010
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I'd rather they DIDN"T go

I'd rather they DIDN"T go into the Exchange outlook folder.  We have a noticable false positive rate with MS Junk folders and, if we did quarantine, would rather just send a daily digest.

With 9.0's improved LDAP support, it might be worth looking into.  The problem is we have 2 control centers, so user would get mulitple digests.

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May
2010
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Well that is your perogative

Well that is your perogative but as you stated, your users are already used to looking in the Junk folder for false positives, so it would be an easy migration.

Having to log into the SBG interface to check false positives is more involved and not as easy to search through.

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2010
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Heh,  My ISP uses a

Heh,  My ISP uses a competivite product with a very nice Daily Digest and easy to use web interface.

Is it possible in SBG 9 to set up per-user quarantine for only a subset of users?  e.g. to pilot the use?  Also if I have to CC's is it possible to push all quarantines to a specific CC?   e.g. using a route on the suspect spam rule to the specific CC?

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2010
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