Configuring Quarantine and Archive Settings Parent topic

Quarantine and archive settings allow you to manage quarantine and archive areas and allocate the amount of disk space per scanner for storing quarantined or archived messages.

Procedure

  1. Go to Mail Areas & QueuesSettings.
    The Quarantine and Archive Settings screen appears.
  2. Click the Quarantine tab (default) or Archive tab, to configure a quarantine area or an archive area.
    The list of areas appears in the table below.
  3. To modify the total disk size allowed for all quarantine areas or archive areas for each scanner service, specify the size of the area next to Disk quota (per scanner), and then select MB or GB from the drop-down box.
  4. Click Add, to add a quarantine or archive area.
  5. Next to Name, specify a descriptive name.
  6. Next to Delete messages older than, specify the number of days after which IMSVA deletes the quarantined or archived messages. The value is exclusive. For example, if you specify 15, IMSVA deletes the quarantined messages on the 16th day.
  7. Select Synchronize all messages that do not violate virus, phishing, Web Reputation, advanced threat, and social engineering attack rules or violate virtual analyzer scanning exceptions, to the EUQ database (for this area only), to automatically save messages to the EUQ database.
    Note
    Note
    After selecting Synchronize all messages that do not violate virus, phishing, Web Reputation, advanced threat, and social engineering attack rules or violate virtual analyzer scanning exceptions, to the EUQ database (for this area only), a check mark appears under the EUQ column of the table on the Quarantine and Archive Settings screen.
  8. Click Save.
    The Quarantine and Archive Settings screen reappears.
  9. To view or modify a quarantine or archive area, click the name of the area and configure the settings above.
  10. To delete a quarantine or archive area, select the check box next to it and click Delete.
  11. After modifying any settings, click Save.