Veritas Enterprise Vault™ Setting up SMTP Archiving

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Product(s): Enterprise Vault (12.2)
  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
      3.  
        Configuring message tracking for SMTP messages
    5. Adding SMTP target addresses
      1.  
        Additional configuration for Selective SMTP Journaling or SMTP Mailbox Journaling
      2.  
        Additional configuration for Compliance Accelerator
      3.  
        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

Adding SMTP target addresses

SMTP targets are the SMTP addresses that Enterprise Vault looks for in the SMTP messages that are sent to the Enterprise Vault SMTP server. The SMTP target addresses are added to the configuration of all Enterprise Vault SMTP servers in the site. In an environment that includes multiple Enterprise Vault SMTP servers, any of the SMTP servers can process messages that contain target email addresses.

To ensure that the SMTP server recognizes the messages for Enterprise Vault, add the SMTP routing addresses as targets. Routing addresses are the SMTP addresses that the MTAs use to route the messages to the Enterprise Vault SMTP servers. If you are implementing Selective SMTP Journaling or SMTP Mailbox Journaling, you also need to add as targets the other addresses that the archiving task uses to select the messages to archive. Ensure that you add as targets all the alias SMTP addresses for a user.

By default, if a message contains the target SMTP address in the X-RCPT-TO field, then the SMTP archiving task archives the message according to the settings in the associated SMTP policy. If you are implementing Selective SMTP Journaling or SMTP Mailbox Journaling, then you need to perform some additional configuration of the target properties.

See Additional configuration for Selective SMTP Journaling or SMTP Mailbox Journaling.

If you plan to use target address rewriting to spread the archiving load over several Enterprise Vault storage servers, you need to add the SMTP routing addresses and the alias addresses as SMTP targets.

See About target address rewriting.

The following procedure describes how to add an SMTP target address using the Enterprise Vault Administration Console. If you have many target addresses to add, we recommend that you use the PowerShell cmdlet, New-EVSMTPTarget.

See Adding a large number of SMTP target addresses.

To add an SMTP target address using the Enterprise Vault Administration Console

  1. In the navigation pane, navigate to Targets > SMTP.
  2. Right-click the SMTP container, and select New > Target Email Address.

    The New SMTP target wizard starts.

  3. Enter the target address in the form user@domain. Wildcard characters are not permitted when specifying SMTP target addresses.
  4. Select the SMTP policy to apply to messages that include the target address. Click Next.
  5. Select the archive in which to store these messages. Click Next.
  6. Select the retention settings to apply to the messages. Click Next.
  7. A summary of the target properties is displayed. Click Finish.
  8. To start archiving messages that are sent to the new target address, restart the SMTP Archiving task on the Enterprise Vault SMTP server. If there are multiple Enterprise Vault SMTP servers in the site, then you need to start the SMTP Archiving task on each SMTP server.