Veritas Enterprise Vault™ Setting up SMTP Archiving

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Product(s): Enterprise Vault (12.1)
  1. About this guide
    1.  
      Introducing this guide
    2. Where to get more information about Enterprise Vault
      1.  
        Enterprise Vault training modules
  2. Introducing Enterprise Vault SMTP Archiving
    1.  
      About Enterprise Vault SMTP Archiving
    2.  
      About SMTP Journaling
    3.  
      About Selective SMTP Journaling
    4.  
      About SMTP Mailbox Journaling
    5.  
      Configuring SMTP Journaling and SMTP Mailbox Journaling
    6.  
      Configuring Selective SMTP Journaling and SMTP Mailbox Journaling
    7.  
      Using Exchange Server to journal messages to Enterprise Vault
  3. Installing SMTP Archiving
    1.  
      About installing Enterprise Vault SMTP Archiving components
    2.  
      Reporting
    3.  
      Monitoring
  4. Configuring SMTP Archiving
    1.  
      Steps to configure SMTP Archiving
    2.  
      Creating archives for SMTP messages
    3. Configuring retention categories and SMTP policies
      1. About X-Headers
        1.  
          About X-Kvs X-Headers
        2.  
          Searching archives for messages with specific X-Headers
    4. Configuring the Enterprise Vault SMTP Servers in the site
      1.  
        Entering the name or IP address of connecting hosts
      2.  
        Obtaining an SSL/TLS certificate
    5. Adding SMTP target addresses
      1.  
        Additional configuration for Selective SMTP Journaling or SMTP Mailbox Journaling
      2.  
        Adding a large number of SMTP target addresses
    6. Adding an SMTP Archiving task
      1.  
        About the SMTP holding folder
      2.  
        Keeping safety copies of archived messages
      3.  
        Task summary reports
  5. Configuring target address rewriting
    1.  
      About target address rewriting
    2.  
      Steps to configure target address rewriting
    3.  
      Adding SMTP target addresses
    4.  
      Adding target address aliases
  6. PowerShell cmdlets
    1.  
      About the PowerShell cmdlets for SMTP Archiving

Configuring Selective SMTP Journaling and SMTP Mailbox Journaling

You can run Selective SMTP Journaling and SMTP Mailbox Journaling concurrently.

Figure: Example of Selective SMTP Journaling and SMTP Mailbox Journaling

Example of Selective SMTP Journaling and SMTP Mailbox Journaling

You configure Selective SMTP Journaling as follows:

  • Configure the MTAs to journal or BCC a copy of each message to an Enterprise Vault routing address.

  • In Enterprise Vault, configure the routing address as an SMTP target.

  • In the properties of this target, ensure that the target is not enabled for archiving (that is, the check box Archive messages sent from or received by this SMTP address is not selected).

  • Also configure as targets the selected addresses that you want to archive in the Selective SMTP journal archives. In the properties for these targets, ensure that target is enabled for archiving.

  • Ensure that the advanced SMTP site setting, Selective Journal Archiving is set to Yes.

See About Selective SMTP Journaling.

You also configure SMTP Mailbox Journaling as follows:

  • In Enterprise Vault, configure as targets the mailbox addresses that you want to archive. Configure a suitable archive for each target address.

  • In the properties of these targets, ensure that the target is enabled for archiving.

See About SMTP Mailbox Journaling.

The Enterprise Vault SMTP server checks that the routing address is an SMTP target, and places the message in the SMTP holding folder.

The SMTP Archiving task then examines the addresses in the sender and recipient fields in each message in the holding folder, and processes each message as follows:

  • The task examines all the sender and recipient fields for target addresses that are enabled for archiving.

  • If the task finds any of the target addresses that are enabled for archiving, it stores the message in the archive that is associated with that target.

Again this means that several copies of a message may be stored in different archives. Where possible, Enterprise Vault uses single instance storage when archiving multiple copies of SMTP messages.