Mail protection

This section describes how to enable or disable mail protection for a Lotus Domino server, how to select email objects to be scanned, how to configure the filtering of email attachments, and how to configure processing of email objects based on anti-virus scan results.

If mail anti-virus protection is enabled, Kaspersky Anti-Virus scans and processes all incoming, outgoing and routed messages on the Lotus Domino server.

Delivery of messages is delayed while they are scanned and processed. Email messages are broken into their constituent parts: body, attachments and OLE-objects. After this, attached objects are filtered by size and / or filename and scanned for viruses.

Kaspersky Anti-Virus uses the kavmonitor task to scan email messages on the Lotus Domino server. If the kavmonitor has been stopped (or has not been started), anti-virus scanning of mail is not performed. Unprocessed email messages are not delivered to users, and are instead stored in the mail.box database. The kavmonitor task has to be started in order for email messages to be delivered to users.

Infected objects and objects that were not scanned due to system failure or damage are processed in accordance with the mail protection settings. A separate procedure may be assigned for attachments that exceed the maximum allowed size and / or whose names match the filename mask.

After installation, the application uses the default mail protection settings. You can change them in accordance with the security requirements of the protected Lotus Domino server. Some of the default settings listed in this section are disabled or can be disabled by the administrator.

By default, before being processed, a copy of the whole message or a copy of the object is placed in Quarantine.

Information that a message has been scanned by Kaspersky Anti-Virus and a description of actions taken are added to the subject and message body. Notifications about actions taken during mail processing are sent to the sender and recipients of the message and administrators. Information about the results of scanning and actions taken is recorded in the Event log and statistics database.

After objects have been scanned and processed, the message is returned to the Lotus Domino system for subsequent delivery.

You can disable scanning of attachments, OLE objects and the message body. You can also limit the time taken to scan an object, which can increase the overall speed of scanning messages.

The mail protection settings are defined by the profile that applies to the protected server. It is not possible to configure mail protection settings for an individual server. However, it is possible to disable (enable) mail protection only for each server individually.

Please note the following restrictions in the operation of mail protection:

In this Help section

Enabling and disabling mail protection

Selecting mail protection objects

Actions on mail objects

Configuring actions to take on mail objects

Configuring mail attachment filtering

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