Create, edit or delete a policy route

You can create a policy route to extend your content security policy. Policy routes determine how your policy is applied to your network. For example, in Secure Email Gateway, a mail policy route which connects 'Anyone' to 'My Company' can be used to configure how you want to manage messages sent from 'Anyone' to users included in 'My Company'.

Create a Mail Policy Route

  Before you create a policy route, you need to create Policy References, such as Email Address Lists, for users that are part of the route. For example, you might want to create an email address list for a particular department within your organization. You can then create a policy route that references this list.

  1. Navigate to Policy > Manage Policy Definition > Mail Policy Routes. The Manage Policy Routes page is displayed.

  2. Click New. The Modify Policy Route page is displayed.

  3. In the Overview panel, click Click here to change these settings. Edit the Name and Notes of the policy route as required, and click Save.

  4. In the For Mail Sent panel, click New to define the From and To endpoints. The Add Route Selector dialog is displayed. Select the email address lists for your From and To endpoints and click Add.

     

    You can use an option in the task panel to create a new email address list.

    If required, you can add multiple route selectors for one endpoint. For example, you can select two email address lists for the From endpoint.

  5. Specify the Encryption or Decryption delivery actions. See Enable encryption or decryption on a policy route for more information.

  6. In the By Default Perform This Disposal Action panel, click Click here to change these settings to configure the default disposal action. Select an action from the drop-down menu and click Save.

  7. Apply content rules to the policy route. In the Unless One Of These Content Rules Triggers panel, click New to add a content rule.

  8. If required, change the order of the content rules. Content rules are prioritized within a policy route and processed according to the order in which they are listed. This means that the order determines which action is performed primarily when a message triggers more than one content rule.

    Select the content rule and adjust its order, using and .

  9. Apply the configuration.

Edit a Mail Policy Route

  Changing the behavior of a content rule will affect every policy route to which that rule has been applied.

  1. Navigate to Policy > Manage Policy Definition > Mail Policy Routes. The Manage Policy Routes page is displayed.

  2. Select the policy route you wish to modify and click Edit. The Modify Policy Route page is displayed.

  3. Modify the Overview, For Mail Sent, Encryption and Decryption*, By Default Perform This Disposal Action, and Unless One Of These Content Rules Triggers panels as required. Click Save on each panel to save your changes. (*For Encryption and Decryption, panel name differs depending on your selected options.)

  4. Apply the configuration.

Delete a Mail Policy Route

  This procedure permanently removes the policy route. To temporarily stop using a route, you can disable it. See Disable or enable a policy route for more information.

  1. Navigate to Policy > Manage Policy Definition > Mail Policy Routes. The Manage Policy Routes page is displayed.

  2. From the list of defined policy routes, select the route you wish to delete and click Delete.

  3. Click Yes in the Confirm Delete dialog to confirm the removal.

  4. Apply the configuration.

 

If you change any configuration or policy settings, you must Apply Configuration for the new settings to take effect. You can do this either from the Changes Made panel, or System > Configuration > Apply Configuration. See Apply new configuration for more information.

If you use Peer Gateways (i.e. when multiple Gateways are peered), any configuration changes from a local Gateway can then be applied to all the peers at the same time. See Configure Peer Gateways for more information.

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