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Veritas Enterprise Vault™ Introduction and Planning

Last Published: 2017-08-10

Product(s): Enterprise Vault (12.2)

SMTP Archiving components

Table: Overview of SMTP Archiving components provides an overview of the main components of SMTP Archiving. You can configure SMTP Archiving using the Enterprise Vault Administration Console, or Enterprise Vault PowerShell cmdlets.

Table: Overview of SMTP Archiving components

Component	Description
Enterprise Vault SMTP server	The SMTP server is implemented as the Windows service, Enterprise Vault SMTP service. This service is displayed in the Windows Services Console, but not in the Enterprise Vault Administration Console. The SMTP server manages SMTP connections, and receives messages that are sent to the Enterprise Vault SMTP server by relay Message Transfer Agents (MTAs), such as Exchange Server, or SMTP servers. The Enterprise Vault SMTP server stores the messages as .eml files in the SMTP holding folder.
SMTP Archiving task	The SMTP Archiving task processes the email files in the holding folder as follows: Checks if the routing address in the message is an SMTP target that is enabled for archiving. If the advanced SMTP site setting, Selective Journal Archiving is enabled, also searches for SMTP target addresses in the To, From, CC, BCC, and Sender fields in the message file. Performs the following actions on each SMTP target address found that is enabled for archiving: Applies the policy associated with the target address Stores the message in the archive associated with the target address Applies the target address retention category By default, deletes the message file from the holding folder when archiving is completed successfully. If errors occur, the task does not delete the file. In Selective SMTP Journaling and SMTP Mailbox Journaling, you can change the default behavior for certain messages.
SMTP holding folder	The SMTP holding folder is a local folder that is assigned to the SMTP Archiving task. The folder location is in the SMTP Archiving task properties. The Enterprise Vault SMTP server places messages in the folder for the archiving task to process. Messages that the archiving task fails to archive are not deleted automatically from the holding folder. The messages are placed in a Failed subfolder.
SMTP policies	An SMTP policy is assigned to an SMTP target address. The policy defines how the SMTP Archiving task manages journal reports and X-Headers, when archiving messages that contain the target address. You can specify the following using policy properties: The X-Headers that you want Enterprise Vault to index Whether the archiving task processes or discards journal reports How the archiving task processes RMS-protected items The target addresses to which the policy applies are also displayed in the policy properties. The SMTP policies are displayed in the Administration Console, under Policies > SMTP.
SMTP target addresses	The SMTP target addresses are the SMTP addresses that the Enterprise Vault SMTP server and SMTP Archiving task look for in the messages that are sent to the Enterprise Vault SMTP server. The target properties contain the following settings: The SMTP address that you want to make a target address. The policy to assign to messages that contain the target address. The retention category to assign to the messages. The archive in which to store the messages. Whether to archive messages sent from or received by the target address. This option is used when configuring Selective SMTP Journaling and SMTP Mailbox Archiving. The SMTP targets are displayed in the Administration Console, under Targets > SMTP.
SMTP archives	The SMTP Archiving task can store SMTP messages in any type of archive. However, we recommend that you use journal type archives if you are configuring SMTP Journaling or Selective SMTP Journaling. User archive types, such as Exchange Mailbox or Internet Mail archives, should only be used for SMTP Mailbox Journaling. You can create SMTP journal archives. These are displayed in the Administration Console, under Archives > SMTP. SMTP Archiving does not create archives automatically. The required archive must exist before you add an SMTP target address.