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SonicWALL Email Security
User Guide
Version 7.2
SonicWALL, Inc.
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Table of Contents
Preface ...................................................................................................................... iii
Finding Online Help ....................................................................................................iii
About SonicWALL Email Security ........................................................................1
When A Message is Flagged as Junk ...............................................................................1
Deleting Spam ...................................................................................................................2
Chapter 2
Logging In to Your Junk Box ................................................................................ 3
Searching in Your Junk Box ..............................................................................................4
Deleting Messages ............................................................................................................4
Unjunking Messages .........................................................................................................5
Viewing Message Content .................................................................................................5
Ending Your Junk Box Session .........................................................................................5
Anti-Spam Techniques .......................................................................................... 7
Managing Allowed and Blocked Lists ................................................................................7
Adding People to the Allowed or Blocked Lists ...........................................................7
Deleting People from the Allowed or Blocked Lists ....................................................8
Adding a Company or Domain to the Allowed List ......................................................9
Deleting a Company or Domain ..................................................................................9
Adding Lists to the Allowed List ..................................................................................9
Configuring Anti-Spam Aggressiveness ...................................................................10
Determining Amounts and Flavors of Spam .............................................................11
Screening Messages in Other Languages ................................................................12
Settings ................................................................................................................. 15
Spam Management .........................................................................................................15
Assigning Delegates for the Junk Box .............................................................................16
Removing a Delegate ...............................................................................................17
Inbound Good vs. Junk Email ..........................................................................................22
Outbound Good vs. Junk Email .......................................................................................23
Junk Email Breakdown ....................................................................................................24
Chapter 6
Feature Overview ............................................................................................................25
How Does the Junk Button Work? ...................................................................................25
Using the Junk Button .....................................................................................................25
installing the Junk Button .................................................................................................26
Index......................................................................................................................... 27
Preface
SonicWALL Email Security guards the perimeter of the organization against the costly, dangerous,
and growing threats to corporate email. Threats are stopped before they infiltrate corporate mail
servers and employee inboxes. SonicWALL Email Security secures email connections and blocks
unwanted email while ensuring timely delivery of all legitimate email. SonicWALL Email Security
provides the most comprehensive and effective spam blocking available. The solution filters email
uniquely for each user, taking into account the different preferences and patterns of each user.
SonicWALL Email Security provides protection against all forms of email threats from entering your
Inbox, including junk email, viruses, and phishing attempts.
Documentation Overview
SonicWALL provides documents to install, administer, and use its products to protect email users.
It also provides documentation on managing security policies for your organization.
Who Should Read this?
Document Name
Network Administrators
SonicWALL Email Security Getting Started Guide
SonicWALL Email Security Administrator’s Guide
SonicWALL Email Security User’s Guide
Email Users
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To view SonicWALL Email Security documentation online, go to:
Documentation Conventions
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Meaning
Bold
Terms you see in a SonicWALL Email Security window
Variable names
Italic
Courier
Text on a command line
Finding Online Help
Click Help to see a description of the window contents.
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SonicWALL Email Security uses pop-up windows for configuration and reporting. Configure your
web browser’s pop-up blockers to allow pop-ups from your organization’s SonicWALL Email
Security server.
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C H A P T E R 1
About SonicWALL Email Security
This chapter describes viewing and handling items in your SonicWALL Email Security Junk Box.
When a Message is Flagged as Junk
When SonicWALL Email Security determines a message is junk, it stores it in a Junk Box. Your
network administrator determines whether users can access their Junk Boxes. If configured, the
software periodically sends you email messages listing the messages flagged as junk email.
Figure 1
Junk Box Summary
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You can scan these messages to see if there are any messages you want to receive and should not
be categorized as Junk. If you see a message you want to receive, click the Unjunk link next to it
and the message is sent to your Inbox. The sender of any messages that you unjunk is added to
your list of allowed senders and their messages are not marked as junk in the future.
Depending on the settings for your organization’s installation of SonicWALL Email Security, you
might also have a View link in the Junk Box summary message. Click the link to view the contents
of the message and determine whether it is spam.
Deleting Spam
If you do not care about the messages in the Junk Box, you can leave them there. They are
automatically deleted later.
C H A P T E R 2
Managing the Junk Box
This chapter describes viewing and handling items in your SonicWALL Email Security Junk Box.
When a Message is Flagged as Junk
When SonicWALL Email Security determines a message is junk, it stores it in a Junk Box. Your
network administrator determines whether users can access their Junk Boxes. If configured, the
software periodically sends you email messages listing the messages flagged as junk email.
Figure 1
Junk Box Summary
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Scan these messages to see if there are any messages you want to receive and should not be
categorized as Junk. If you see a message you want to receive, click the Unjunk link next to it and
the message is sent to your Inbox. The sender of any messages that you unjunk is added to your
list of allowed senders and their messages are not marked as junk in the future.
Depending on the settings for your organization’s installation of SonicWALL Email Security, you
might also have a View link in the Junk Box summary message. Click the link to view the contents
of the message and determine whether it is spam.
Logging In to Your Junk Box
When SonicWALL Email Security determines that a message contains a threat or a likely threat, it
stores the message in a Junk Box on the server and alerts you by email. You can log in to your Junk
Box to view messages that were junked by SonicWALL Email Security. Log in to SonicWALL Email
Security using the link that your IT administrator gave you or by clicking the link in the Junk Box
Summary message you receive.
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SonicWALL Email Security uses pop-up windows to confirm actions and perform other activities.
Configure your web browser’s pop-up blockers to allow pop-ups from your organization’s
SonicWALL Email Security server.
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To log in to your Junk Box
1. Log in with your user name and password.
2. Choose the appropriate domain from the list, if necessary.
Your personal Junk Box appears, with any messages that have been flagged as spam or other
unwanted email.
You can display all junk mail, likely junk mail, or other unwanted email if your organization has
configured SonicWALL Email Security to screen for viruses, phishing, or email that contains content
your organization has chosen to manage through policies.
Searching in Your Junk Box
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To use Simple View
1. Enter a word or partial word in the Search text box. Search is not case-sensitive.
2. Select the field you want to search in (Subject, From). To search for words in a specific order,
put double quotes around the phrase, such as “sent for review”. Only messages which match
that phrase will be returned.
3. Click Search.
Messages matching your search criteria are displayed. To move quickly through results pages, click
in the field that says “Page 1 of 14” and type the result page you want to view. You can also change
the number of messages displayed on each page.
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To use Advanced View
1. On the Junk Box page, click the Advanced View button.
2. To search for specific email threat types, clear the check boxes under the Search text box to
remove the information you want excluded.
3. Click Search.
Messages matching your search criteria are displayed. To move quickly through results pages, click
in the field that says “Page 1 of 14” and type the result page you want to view. You can also change
the number of messages displayed on each page.
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As an example, suppose you wanted to see only messages that were Spam or Likely Spam. Clear
all the checkboxes except the Show Spam and Show Likely Spam check boxes. Leave all the
locations selected and click Search.
To select all the messages visible, check the box at the top of the left column. Otherwise, select the
messages you wish to receive. Note that selection data is not saved once you navigate to another
results page.
Supported Search
The following types of search can be performed in the To, From, or Subject field.
Boolean Search
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OR Operator: This is the default search. Add OR in between search words. The results will
contain any of these search words.
AND Operator: Add ‘+’ before the search word (or) AND in between search words. Each result
must contain these words.
NOT Operator: Add ‘-’ before the search words (or) NOT in between search words. The results
must not contain these search words.
Wildcard Search
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* operator: Add * to the middle or end of the word. This substitutes more than one character
to the search word, and attempts to perform a search on all possible words.
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? operator: Add ? to the middle or end of the word. This substitues one character and will find
the match for the word.
Note: Wildcard operators should be added to the middle or end of the text, rather than at that
beginning.
Phrase Search
A phrase is a group of words surrounded by “quotes.” The exact phrase will be searched.
Fuzzy Search
Add ‘~’ to the end of the word to search for the closest possible match. This search is useful when
search words have an error, or the exact spelling for the text is unknown.
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Proximity Search
This searches for words closer to each other.
The syntax is “word 1 word2”~distance
Deleting Messages
Once you have determined that a message was correctly placed in your Junk Box, you can delete
one or more messages at a time, or all the messages. Select one or more messages and click
Delete to delete a single message, or click Check All then Delete to remove all messages from
your Junk Box.
If you do nothing, these messages are automatically deleted after the number of days configured
by the SonicWALL Email Security administrator.
Unjunking Messages
If an email message is incorrectly sorted into your Junk Box, move it to your inbox.
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To unjunk a message
1. Click the box to the left of the message to select the message you want to retrieve.
2. Click Unjunk.
The senders of any messages you unjunk are added to your list of allowed senders; future
messages from these senders are delivered directly to your Inbox.
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To unjunk all messages
1. Click Check All.
2. Click Unjunk.
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Viewing Message Content
Depending on your organization’s configuration, you can view the contents of a message by clicking
the View link next to it in the Junk Summary Message sent to you by email. For security reasons,
SonicWALL Email Security displays only the text portions of the message and does not display
graphical images.
To view the header information, click the Raw Mode option.
Ending Your Junk Box Session
When you are done managing your Junk Box, click the Log out button in the upper-left corner of
the window, or close the browser window.
C H A P T E R 3
Anti-Spam Techniques
This chapter describes how you can use SonicWALL Email Security to block senders, or ensure that
senders you approve can send you email.
Managing Allowed and Blocked Lists
Managing your Allowed and Blocked lists can help prevent email you want from ending up in your
Junk Box and keep email from legitimate-looking but annoying senders from cluttering up your
inbox. Use the Anti-Spam Techniques window to create your own lists of senders from whom you
want to allow and block email.
SonicWALL Email Security provides separate lists for people, companies (domains), and mailing
lists. For each type of list, click the Allowed and Blocked tabs to see the different allowed and
blocked lists. Search for allowed and blocked names, company, and lists in the Anti-Spam
Techniques window. Click Search and type the name of the person, company, or list.
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An email address or domain cannot be on both the Allowed and Blocked lists. If you add an
address in one list that already exists on the other, SonicWALL Email Security removes the
address from the other list.
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Adding People to Allowed or Blocked Lists
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To add people to Allowed or Blocked lists
1. Navigate to Anti-Spam, Anti-Phishing > People.
2. Click Allowed to see a list of senders who may be added to the Allowed list.
3. Click Add to add a person.
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4. Enter the email address of the senders you want to allow. If you add multiple people, press
Enter after each address.
5. Click Add.
Deleting People from Allowed or Blocked Lists
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To delete people from Allowed or Blocked lists
1. Click the Anti-Spam Techniques button.
2. Click the checkbox adjacent to the address.
3. Click Delete.
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Adding Companies or Domains to Allowed or Blocked Lists
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To add companies or domains to Allowed or Blocked lists
1. Click the Anti-Spam, Anti-Phishing button.
2. Click Companies from the left hand navigation menu.
A list of companies is displayed.
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Some company addresses are adjacent to a dimmed checkbox. These addresses are on the
organization Allowed list; users cannot delete these companies.
3. Click Allowed to view the companies and domains in the Allowed list.
Adding a Company or Domain to the Allowed List
A domain is the part of an email address that represents the company or organization sending the
Companies may have several domains.
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To enter the name of the domain into your allowed list
1. Click the Add button.
2. Enter the domain(s) you want to allow.
If you add multiple domains, press Enter after each one.
NOTE: Specify full domain names in this format: example.com or example.gov.
3. Click Add.
Deleting a Domain
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To delete a domain
1. Check the check box next to the domain you want to delete.
2. Click Delete to delete that domain from the Allowed list.
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Adding Lists to the Allowed List
Email messages from mailing-list servers do not always come from the same email address or
FROM: field in the address. This makes it difficult to add list messages to the Allowed list.
The email messages are from the person who posted the message to the list-server and the
message is addressed to the mailing list. You can only add and delete Allowed lists.
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To add email lists to Allowed Lists
1. Navigate to Anti-Spam, Anti-Phishing > Lists.
2. Click Add to add mailing lists to Allowed Lists.
3. Enter the address for one or more of the lists, pressing Enter after each one.
4. Click Add. The updated Allowed Lists window appears.
Configuring Anti-Spam Aggressiveness
If you want to change how aggressively your mail is filtered, use the Anti-Spam Aggressiveness
window. Increasing the aggressiveness means you get less spam, but increases your chances of a
valid email being classified as spam. SonicWALL recommends using the default setting of Medium
or 3 unless you require different settings for specific types of spam blocking.
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Note: To use your companies default settings, use the Adhere to Corporate/Group Defaults
checkbox. If your IT department enforces these settings, the checkbox is dimmed; you cannot
change blocking levels.
Configuring SMART Network Aggressiveness Settings
You can adjust the level of influence community input has on organization spam blocking, produced
by the Self-Monitoring Active Response Team (SMART) network. Updates are provided to your
gateway server at defined intervals.
To adjust your collaborative settings, click one of the radio buttons from Mild (1) to Strong (5).
A setting of 5 means that you are comfortable with the collective experience of the SonicWALL user
community. A setting of 1 or 2 indicates that you are skeptical of the collective experience and want
to judge more email for yourself.
Configuring Adversarial Bayesian Aggressiveness Settings
This aggressiveness setting determines how likely an email message is to be identified as junk
email. Selecting a stronger setting makes SonicWALL Gateway more likely to mark a message as
spam.
Determining Amounts and Flavors of Spam
You can determine how aggressively to block particular types of spam, including sexual content,
offensive language, get rich quick schemes, gambling, and advertisements.
For each of the spam flavors:
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Choose Mild (1) to be able to view email that contains terms that relate to these topics.
Choose Medium (2 - 4) to cause SonicWALL Email Security to tag this email as likely junk.
Choose Strong (5) make it more likely that email with this content is sent to your junkbox.
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Screening Messages in Other Languages
Many spam messages are in a language other than the one you do business in. To filter out
messages based on language they were written in, use the Languages window. For each language,
you can choose allow, block, or have no opinion. For example, you might want to receive all
messages in German, but block messages in other languages. You might also have no opinion about
receiving messages in other languages.
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Configuring Language Preferences for SonicWALL Email Security
You can change the language in which the user interface for SonicWALL Email Security is displayed.
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To change the language:
1. Click the Language link that appears in the lower-right frame of the user interface window.
2. Select your desired language. Note that your computer must support the language to display it
correctly.
3. Click Reset to Browser Primary Language to return to the language your browser usually
uses.
Configuring Language Preferences for your Junk Box Summary
You can configure your Junk Box summary to appear in any of the supported languages, if your
computer supports the language modules to display the character sets.
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To change the language for your Junk Box summary
1. Navigate to System > Junk Box Summary.
2. Select a language from the Language of summary email drop-down list.
3. Click Apply Changes.
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C H A P T E R 4
Settings
You can change your spam-filtering settings by using the SonicWALL Email Security Settings page.
Choose what to do with messages that are spam, likely spam, phishing, viruses, or have content
not allowed by your organization’s policy.
Navigate to Anti-Spam, Anti-Phishing > Default Spam Management to view and configure
your spam-filtering settings.
Spam Management
Determine what action to take with messages marked as Spam and Likely Spam. Check one of the
following options:
Spam Filtering Off
SonicWALL Email Security passes messages through to your Inbox
Store in Junk Box and delete after
number of days
SonicWALL Email Security stores all messages that it determines as
spam for the number of days set by your SonicWALL Email Security
administrator.
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Tag with text
Add words to mark messages that are spam or are likely spam. This text
is added before the subject of an email. For example if the original sub-
ject is “You may already be a winner”, the added text might make it “Likely
Spam: You may already be a winner”.
Assigning Users for the Junk Box
The Users window allows you to authorize one or more users to monitor your Junk Box. Navigate
to Users & Groups > Users.
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To add a user
1. Click the Add button. The Add User screen appears.
2. Enter the email address of the user in the Primary Address box.
3. Click Add.
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Removing a User
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To remove a user
1. Click the user that you want to remove.
2. Click the Remove button.
Junk Box Summary
When SonicWALL Email Security moves junk and likely junk messages to your Junk Box, you can
choose to be notified periodically by email.
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To manage your junk summary settings
1. Choose the default email frequency for Junk summaries from the drop-down list.
Your choices range from never to 14 days.
2. Choose the Time of day to receive the Junk summary.
3. Choose the Day of the week to receive the Junk summary.
4. Choose the Language in which to view your Junk summary. You can choose to view the your
junk summaries in the following languages:
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To correctly display the Junk Summary in a language other than English, you must install the
appropriate language packs on your computer.
5. If you prefer, check the Plain Summary (no graphics) checkbox.
6. Check the Send Junk Box Summary to delegates checkbox if you want to send summaries
to a delegate. If you have not yet assigned a delegate, navigate to the Settings > Delegate
page.
7. Choose one of the options for the junk summary:
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8. Click Apply.
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C H A P T E R 5
Reports & Monitoring
The reports in this module show statistics for your organization—not just your own spam. Click the
Reports & Monitoring button to view them.
The Reports Dashboard provides a lot of information about SonicWALL Email Security at a glance.
These charts display statistics for the last 24 hours and are updated hourly. Clicking the Refresh
Reports button causes the data in these reports to be updated with the most current data.
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Inbound Good vs. Junk Email
The Inbound Good vs. Junk page illustrates the number of incoming email that is good versus junk
email. Values are shown in number of messages per day and also according to the percentage of
good versus junk.
Outbound Good vs. Junk Email
The Outbound Good vs. Junk page illustrates the number of outgoing email that is good versus junk
email. Values are shown in number of messages per day and also according to the percentage of
good versus junk.
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Junk Email Breakdown
The Junk Email Breakdown page illustrates the types of messages received, and shows the
comparative amounts of messages that were identified as spam, likely spam, contained viruses,
likely contained viruses, phishing, likely phishing, were identified by policy rules, and were
considered Directory Harvest Attacks (DHA).
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C H A P T E R 6
Junk Button for Microsoft Outlook
This chapter describes the SonicWALL Junk Button for Outlook, a small application that can be
added to Microsoft Outlook. The Junk Button allows end-users to report spam messages to the
SonicWALL GRID Network. The GRID Network’s ability to detect spam is enhanced each time a user
uses the Junk Button.
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Feature Overview
When a user presses the Junk Button, the highlighted email message is moved to the user’s Outlook
Deleted Items folder and the message’s thumbprint is added to the GRID Network thumbprint
database. As more thumbprint reports accrue about a message, SonicWALL Email Security
appliances and installations are more likely to filter that message as spam so that other users do
not see it.
Benefits:
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Empowers users—Users are not just getting rid of their own spam, they are helping themselves
and other users around the world.
Improves enterprise spam filtering—The enterprise benefits from the human intelligence of its
members because the amount of spam the organization as a whole receives is reduced.
Decreases helpdesk requests—Users can report and dispose of spam themselves.
How Does the Junk Button Work?
The SonicWALL Junk Button allows you to remove spam from your inbox by clicking a small toolbar
button in Microsoft Outlook. Your feedback helps block spam sent to you, your organization, and
other people using SonicWALL Anti-Spam and Email Security products.
The SonicWALL GRID Network collects your “Junk vote”, parsing the spam email into its attributes
and combining your vote with other sources. These reputation updates, called thumbprints, are
delivered back to your SonicWALL Email Security system every five minutes, improving your
system’s ability to block spam, phishing, and virus emails.
The text of messages is not reported to the GRID Network. Instead, the message is converted into
a uniquely identifying hash, and only this hash is used in the thumbprint.
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Using the Junk Button
The Junk Button is used to remove any junk e-mail messages that arrive in your inbox and place
them in your Deleted Items folder.
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To use the Junk Button:
1. A junk e-mail arrives in your inbox.
2. Highlight the e-mail message by selecting it.
3. Click the SonicWALL “Junk” button in your Outlook toolbar.
4. The junk message is moved from your inbox to your “Deleted Items” folder.
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To access your SonicWALL ES account, click the SonicWALL ES button and log in with the
information your administrator has given you. From here you can view and sort the Junk Box
containing messages that did not reach your Outlook inbox.
Installing the Junk Button
If you do not already have the Junk Button for Outlook installed, you can install it easily from the
SonicWALL Email Security page.
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To install the Junk Button:
1. Log in as a user.
2. Save the zip file to your computer.
3. Close Microsoft Outlook by choosing File and then Exit. Just clicking the Close button may not
close all the associated Outlook windows.
4. Double-click the zip file and then double-click the executable.
5. Accept the installation terms and click Next.
6. Accept the installation location and click Next.
7. Click Finish to complete your installation.
8. Restart Outlook and check that the Junk Button toolbar has been installed.
Index
A
adding
allowed, blocked lists 9
delegate 17
a delegate 16
junk mail 4
companies or domains
allowed, blocked lists 8
lists
people from allowed, blocked lists 8
spam 2
Directory Harvest Attacks (DHA) 24
displaying
allowed list 9
people
junk mail 4
allowed, blocked lists 7
address conflicts 7
Adversarial Bayesian Aggressiveness 11
allowed list
downloading reports 21
F
foreign languages
blocking 12
preferences 12
adding 9
allowed, blocked lists 7
adding companies or domains 8
adding people 7
G
graphical junk box summary 19
deleting 9
deleting people 8
anti-spam aggressiveness settings 10
J
junk box 1
delegates 16
searching 4
B
configuring language preference 13
language 17
simple or graphical 19
junk mail
deleting 4
displaying 4
junk message 1
blocking
foreign languages 12
lists 7
C
companies or domains 9
configuring
Adversarial Bayesian Aggressiveness 11
language preferences 12
SMART Network Aggressiveness 11
L
languages
D
junk box summary 17
logging out 5
delegates for junk box 16
deleting
companies or domains
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M
messages
junk 1
processed 22
unjunking 5
viewing content 5
R
reports 21
downloading 21
Inbound Good vs. Junk 22
Junk Email Breakdown 24
Outbound Good vs. Junk 23
time frame 21
S
searching
corporate junk box 4
Self-Monitoring Active Response Team, see SMART
settings
Adversarial Bayesian Aggressiveness 11
anti-spam aggressiveness 10
junk box summary 17
SMART Network Aggressiveness 11
spam filtering 15
signing off 5
simple junk box summary 19
SMART 11
SonicWALL ES account 26
spam management 15
spam-filtering settings 15
T
thumbprint 25
U
V
viewing message content 5
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