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How much emails can the SOPHOS Email Appliance hold for specific duration of time?

BobbyRoa

Here's a scenario:

Is it possible to have the SEA hold all messages and execute a manual release instead?  If so, for how long before we start to lose messages and how many messages max can it keep on hold?

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    Hi Bobby,

    Can you clarify what you mean by hold all messages?  Are you going to be quaranting the message and then releasing them on a need basis?  The quarantine works in two different ways.  Quarantine messages are stored for a max of 30 days, however, if your quarantine partition reaches above 90%, then the system will begin to purge and archive the messages.  It will backup if you have configured an FTP server, if not they will expire.

    -Jason

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    By "hold", yes, I mean quarantine..  but it needs to quarantine all emails, good and bad.  The scenario would be simulating a downed Exchange server and having SEA catch all emails until the mail server comes online.  Once it is back online, a manual release will need to be done to get them flowing thru and delivering to the recipients...

    I know you can easily force emails to be retained by SEA by just simply disconnecting the exchange server but is there a way we can configure it to do the same with the exchange server still online?  Kinda like closing the canal lock gates for a while then opening them up later when we want the ship to pass thru :-)

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    Hi Bobby,

    Currently the only way to achieve the scenario you are wanting would be to change the action of all the rules to quarantine.  And they use a catch all rule for legit messages at the end so that you can query those in the quarantine.

    The advanced SMTP mail options do not allow for you to create queues to hold messages at the MTA level. This is something that we have not seen requested in the past.

    -Jason

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