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- If none of the rules are true, it will perform the default action for the route, typically deliver the email.
- If one of the rules is true, it will perform the actions and stop applying further rules.
Consider the following content rules as they are applied to the My Company to Anyone route:
- Email passing through this route that does not match another route will be allowed unless one of the rules is true.
- Email passing through this route that contains active content will cause content rule 1, Sanitize Outbound Active Content, to be triggered. The email will be sanitized.
- Email passing through this route that contains encrypted files will cause content rule 5, Detect and Redact Confidential Material, to be triggered. The email will be redacted.
- And so on until the end of the rules.
It is important that rules for a given route are configured in the right order. This is important when considering the level of threat and machine processing time and resources. The greater the threat, the higher the rule should be on the rules table.