Core Protection Suite
Admin Guide
Spam Soap, Inc.
3193 Red Hill Avenue Costa Mesa, CA 92626 United States
p.866.SPAM.OUT f.949.203.6425
e. [email protected] www.spamsoap.com
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Contents
EMAIL PROTECTION – OVERVIEW ...3
EMAIL PROTECTION – QUARANTINE ...5
EMAIL PROTECTION – POLICIES ...6
EMAIL PROTECTION SETUP - INBOUND SERVERS ...7
EMAIL PROTECTION SETUP - FIREWALL ...7
EMAIL PROTECTION – REPORTS ...8
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT – CUSTOMERS ...9
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT – DOMAINS ... 10
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT – GROUPS ... 10
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LOGIN to the Spam Soap Console: go to https://console.spamsoap.com. Your credentials are provided in your Welcome Document.
EMAIL PROTECTION – OVERVIEW
After logging in, the first page that loads is the Overview tab, under the main heading of Email Protection. Click “Display Statistics” to get rollup data for all your domains. This provides a 24 hour snap-shot of data like total traffic, messages filtered for reasons of spam, virus or attachment, Disaster Recovery activity, and more.. This provides a 24 hour snap-shot of data like total traffic, messages filtered for reasons of spam, virus or attachment, Disaster Recovery activity, and more. More data is available in the Reports tab (see Reports Tab).
Display Statistics Button:
Without Display Statistics:
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With Display Statistics:
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EMAIL PROTECTION – QUARANTINE
Clicking on this tab brings you to a search engine where you can search for quarantined mail based on the following criteria; sender, recipient, threat, day, direction (inbound and/or outbound if applicable). Use the help button to get specific information about each function.
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EMAIL PROTECTION – POLICIES
Clicking on this tab brings you to your Policy Sets, which control how viruses, spam, content, attachments, etc. are handled according to your preferences. Take a few minutes to browse through to check the default settings. Any changes made here will affect the entire domain. New policy sets can be created and groups of users assigned to these policies with different settings and configurations. Use the help button to get specific information about each section and its use.
Policy page shown below. Double click the line item you’d like to edit, or select it and press the Edit button.
Editing a specific policy:
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EMAIL PROTECTION SETUP - INBOUND SERVERS
Clicking on this tab brings you to the Setup area where you can add/change inbound and/or outbound servers, manage Disaster Recovery, view your MX records, change your user creation settings (SMTP Discovery or Explicit), or create notification distribution lists. Use the help button to get specific information about each section and its use.
Setup tab / Inbound Servers
EMAIL PROTECTION SETUP - FIREWALL
In order to prevent senders from bypassing filtering by connecting directly to customer mail servers, it is recommended that the servers be locked down so that they only accept SMTP traffic from the filtering service mail servers. For your reference, the IP subnets currently hosting filtering service mail servers are listed below and in the control console.
*Prior to locking down the firewall, please allow 72 hours to ensure DNS propagation for all mail traffic.
Setup tab / MX Records
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EMAIL PROTECTION – REPORTS
Clicking on this tab brings you to the default report: Traffic: Overview. This report shows inbound and/or outbound traffic and bandwidth for the current week. Use the Report and Period drop-down menus to select various reports or time periods. Use the help button to get specific information about each report.
Reports tab / Traffic Overview
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ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT– USERS
The Users tab will provide a list of current users under “user accounts.” By default, SMTP Discovery creates a new user after 8 successful mail deliveries in a 24 hour period are received for that user. If you don’t see all your users listed (or the user in question has not received a quarantine report after 7 days of service), you may need to create such users manually. This can be done by clicking “New.” Other buttons include Edit, Delete, Download, and Sync if Active Directory Sync is enabled. Use the help button to get specific information about each section and its use.
Account Management Section / Users tab
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT – CUSTOMERS
Some control console admins will need to manage several customers (companies) at a time. If more than one customer
environment is listed in your account, the CUSTOMERS tab will list each of them individually. Clicking on a single customer in the list brings you to the Customer Details page, showing general account and Email Protection Settings.
*If additional solutions are provisioned for a customer account, they will appear here as well.
Account Management Section / Customers tab
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ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT – DOMAINS
Clicking on this tab shows a list of domains filtered for your customer account. Clicking on a domain in the list brings you to the Domain Details page. Please contact Spam Soap to make changes to your account.
Account Management Section / Domains tab
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT – GROUPS
This section allows you to create groups, assign users to those groups, and assign groups to various policy sets (Email Protection), giving customized configurations to specified groups of users.
Account Management Section / Groups tab
