2.4 Manual Migration to SMG

If you are migrating from another message processing product or an older version of GWAVA, you can migrate your settings manually. It is recommended that you study the Policy Scan Configuration section before you begin.

1. Begin by creating a list of exceptions from your old program. These are the email addresses you are allowing/disallowing system-wide.

2. Then create an Inbound Mail Filter Policy SMTP Policy Creation With the Wizard or a Block and Quarantine with Exceptions policy Creating a Block and Quarantine with Exceptions Policy.

You can migrate the settings you have built up in the other program. For example, you want to import the email address exceptions that should be allowed through. In this case, you can add an email address exception to the Spam Filter Group.

In this example, you will use an inbound mail filter policy and modify it to act as a system whitelist, which is different from a user’s personal whitelist.

1. Begin by creating a list of whitelist exceptions for this filter. Go to your old filter program and gather the list of system-wide allowed emails. Copy them to a text file, one email address on each line with no leading or trailing spaces, and no blank lines.

2. Create an inbound mail filter policy using the wizard, under System Administration | Policy Management.

3. Add an exception by going to the Exception tab and dragging down the Email Address exception to the workbench. Connect the exception to the filter by clicking and dragging the yellow pin. In this example, to the Spam Filter Group.

4. Click on the Exception Icon (the little black book with an @ sign) to edit the search criteria. This is where you paste a copy of the exceptions from the other program.

NOTE: Make sure there are no leading or trailing spaces around the email addresses, and that there are no blank lines.

5. Press Ok to save the search criteria.

6. Press Save (the little floppy disk icon at the top-right) to save and activate the filter.

This same logic applies to creating a IP address, or message text exception. In the case of message text exceptions, interior spaces are allowed but a line should not begin or end with a space and no lines may be completely blank..