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

Adding an SMTP Archiving task

An Enterprise Vault SMTP server can host only one SMTP Archiving task. Each archiving task requires its own local SMTP holding folder. The account under which the archiving task runs must have full access to the holding folder.

To add the SMTP Archiving task

  1. Open the Administration Console, and navigate to Enterprise Vault Servers > server > Tasks.
  2. Right-click the Tasks container and select New > SMTP Archiving task to open the new task page.
  3. Enter the required information for the SMTP Archiving task, including a suitable folder for the SMTP holding folder.

The SMTP Archiving task processes the .eml message files that the Enterprise Vault SMTP server has placed in the SMTP holding folder. The task examines each file, and determines if the file is eligible for archiving. The task archives messages according to the SMTP policy and target configuration.

If messages contain X-Headers that are listed in the policy, these are indexed when the message is archived. If messages contain "X-Kvs" X-Headers, then the values in these headers override policy and target configuration settings.

The archiving task deletes the message file from the holding folder when either of the following conditions is fulfilled:

  • After the task has archived the message successfully.

  • If the message does not contain any target addresses that are eligible for archiving. This may happen in Selective SMTP Journaling or SMTP Mailbox Journaling, where the check box, Archive messages sent from or received by this SMTP address, is not selected for a target routing address.

The SMTP service and SMTP Archiving task run continually. If the SMTP service stops, Enterprise Vault attempts to restart it. If you stop the archiving task, you are prompted to stop the SMTP service as well. If you leave the SMTP service running, it continues to add files to the holding folder.

When processing files in the holding folder, the archiving task performs checkpointing at regular intervals. You can change the checkpoint interval on the Advanced tab in the task properties.