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 the Enterprise Vault SMTP Servers in the site

After you have completed the initial set up of Enterprise Vault, you configure the SMTP connection settings for the Enterprise Vault SMTP server, as described in this section.

These settings are stored in the Enterprise Vault directory, and propagated to each Enterprise Vault SMTP server in the site. Starting or restarting the Enterprise Vault Admin service on an Enterprise Vault SMTP server forces the settings on that SMTP server to synchronize with the settings in the directory.

In the Enterprise Vault Administration Console, the SMTP server settings are in the properties of the container Targets > SMTP.

To configure the Enterprise Vault SMTP servers

  1. On the computer that hosts the Enterprise Vault Administration Console, log on as the Vault Service account, or an account that has the SMTP Administrator role.
  2. Open the Enterprise Vault Administration Console.
  3. In the navigation pane, expand the site, then the Targets container.
  4. Right-click the SMTP container and select Properties.
  5. The SMTP Properties dialog is displayed.

    When you open the dialog for the first time, click Configure settings... to launch the SMTP Server Settings wizard.

    The wizard enables you to configure the following settings for the SMTP servers:

    SMTP port

    The port on which the SMTP server listens. By default, the SMTP server listens on port 25. Ensure that the port you specify is open on each SMTP server.

    Maximum message size

    The maximum size of SMTP message that the SMTP servers will accept. If you do not specify a maximum message size, there is no limit on the size of messages.

    Authentication

    Defines the credentials used by MTAs when connecting to the Enterprise Vault SMTP server.

    If you want connecting hosts to use authentication when connecting, enter the credentials that they need to use. The username should be specified in the form user@domain. There is no requirement for the username to be an existing email address, or an account in Active Directory.

    Authentication is required by default.

    You can control plain text authentication as follows:

    • Never allow plain text authentication

    • Always allow plain text authentication with or without TLS

    • Allow plain text authentication only when TLS is enabled

    Connection security

    Specifies which of the following connections are permitted:

    • Only encrypted

    • Only unencrypted

    • Both encrypted and unencrypted

    By default only encrypted connections are allowed.

    To support encrypted connections, you need to have a valid PFX or PKCS#12 (.p12) certificate file.

    See Obtaining an SSL/TLS certificate.

    The wizard enables you to install the certificates.

    Connection control

    Enables you to control which computers can connect to the Enterprise Vault SMTP servers. If you do not add any computers to the connection control list, then any computer may connect to the Enterprise Vault SMTP servers. If you add one or more computers to the list, then only the computers listed can connect.

    You can specify the connecting hosts using one of the following formats:

    • Host name

    • Host name suffix

    • Host name pattern

    • IPv4

    • IPv4 range in CIDR notation

    • IPv6

    • IPv6 range in CIDR notation

    See Entering the name or IP address of connecting hosts.

    Select the format that you want to use to enter the value. Then enter the name or IP address in the specified format.

    Alternatively, you can import the values from a .csv file. Each host should be listed on a new line as host_name_or_address, format.