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

Configuring SMTP Journaling and SMTP Mailbox Journaling

You can run SMTP Journaling and SMTP Mailbox Journaling concurrently.

Figure: Example of SMTP Journaling and SMTP Mailbox Journaling

Example of SMTP Journaling and SMTP Mailbox Journaling

You configure SMTP Journaling as follows:

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

  • Configure the routing addresses in Enterprise Vault as SMTP targets. You associate each target routing address with a suitable journal archive.

  • In the properties for the target routing addresses, ensure that the target is enabled for archiving (that is, the check box Archive messages sent from or received by this SMTP address is selected).

    Where there could be a large volume of messages for journaling, it is advisable to configure multiple target routing addresses and archives.

See About SMTP Journaling.

If you want to spread the archiving load over multiple archives, but use only one or two routing addresses, then you can implement address rewriting on each SMTP server to redirect the messages to a different target address and archive.

See About target address rewriting.

You also configure SMTP Mailbox Journaling as follows:

  • In Enterprise Vault configure as SMTP targets the user addresses that you want to archive.

  • In the properties of these targets, ensure that the target is enabled for archiving (that is, the check box Archive messages sent from or received by this SMTP address is selected).

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

See About SMTP Mailbox Journaling.

As the routing address is an SMTP target, the Enterprise Vault SMTP server 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:

  • As the target routing addresses are enabled for archiving, the archiving task stores the message in the associated journal archive.

  • The archiving task searches the sender and recipient fields for other target addresses that are enabled for archiving. If the task finds a target address, it stores a copy of the message in the archive associated with the target address.

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.