Best Practice - Mesh 365
The default policy settings are designed to be best practice and are explained below.
Verdicts
Verdict | Recommended action | What the verdict means |
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CLEAN | DELIVER | The email has been scanned and given a clean verdict. |
IMPERSONATION | JUNK + BANNER | The email contains Business Email Compromise indicators and sender information matches, or is similar to an internal user. |
INFOMAIL | JUNK + BANNER | The email contains an unsubscribe link and/or advertising, marketing, newsletter type content. Note: Many transactional emails will contain unsubscribe links and will be quarantined if your policy is configured to quarantine Infomail. |
MALWARE | QUARANTINE | The email contains malicious content such as a URL or attachment. |
PHISHING | QUARANTINE | The email contains content such as a URL or attachment that is considered phishing. |
SPAM-DEFINITE | JUNK + BANNER | The email has received a spam score of 18.00+ |
SPAM-HIGH | JUNK + BANNER | The email has received a spam score of 9.00-18.00 |
SPAM-LIKELY | JUNK + BANNER | The email has received a spam score of 6.25-9.00 |
BANNED | QUARANTINE | The email contains an attachment banned as per the policy in place. Allow rules DO NOT bypass this verdict. To bypass the banned verdict, you must create a custom rule or remove the attachment type from the policy option. |
Other Email Settings
Policy Option | Recommended action | What the verdict means |
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Banned Attachments | QUARANTINE EXECUTABLES | If an email contains a banned attachment, it will be automatically quarantined. Note: emails quarantined for banned attachments can only be released by an administrator. |
Bypass Internal Banned Attachments | DISABLED | If enabled, internal emails containing a banned attachment will not be quarantined. |
Geo Filter | QUARANTINE | Quarantine, junk, or banner actions on emails from different regions and countries. Policy is triggered based on the country of origin or the envelope-from TLD. Allow rules DO NOT bypass this verdict. To bypass the policy-geo verdict, you must create a custom rule or remove the country from the policy option. |
Spam Filtering Level | MEDIUM | This feature increases or reduces the sensitivity of the spam filtering. This can be useful if you require filtering to be more or less restrictive for everyone or for certain mailboxes.
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Actions Explained
Actions | What it means |
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DELIVER | Emails are delivered to the inbox. |
DELIVER + BANNER | Emails are delivered to the inbox with a verdict dependant banner applied. |
QUARANTINE | Emails are quarantined in Mesh for 28 days. |
JUNK | Emails are moved to the Junk folder in Outlook. |
BANNER | A warning banner is applied to the top of the email. |
JUNK + BANNER | A warning banner is applied to the top of the email and the email is moved to the Junk folder in Outlook. |
DELETE | Emails are deleted entirely and will not appear in the quarantine or inbox. Deleted emails cannot be delivered. |