McAfee Security for Microsoft Exchange 8.6.0

Configure mailbox exclusion settings

Configure mailboxes or folders that are to be excluded from a VSAPI scan.

Configure mailbox exclusion settings during specific scenarios where:

Company officials who do not want their emails scanned.
Company policy that identifies non-scan folders.
Folders that are to be excluded from scanning.
McAfee does not recommend excluding mailboxes and cannot be held liable, if you have any mailboxes that are infected due to the exclusion settings.
Task
1 Click Settings & Diagnostics | Mailbox Exclusion Settings. The Mailbox Exclusion Settings page appears.
2 To exclude the mailbox or subfolder:
To exclude a mailbox To exclude a folder in the mailbox
1From the Available mailboxes pane, select a mailbox, then click >>.

The selected mailbox is moved to the Mailboxes to exclude pane. Repeat this step for all mailboxes that are to be excluded from a VSAPI scan.

To remove a mailbox from the exclusion list, select a mailbox in the Mailboxes to exclude pane and click << to move the mailbox to the list of Available mailboxes.

When a mailbox is added to the Mailboxes to exclude pane, all folders in the mailbox are excluded from scanning.
1From the Available mailboxes pane, select a mailbox.
2In the Folders within the mailbox to be excluded box, type the folder name to be excluded, then click >>.

The selected mailbox folder is moved to the Mailboxes to exclude pane.

You can also use wildcard to exclude multiple folders from VSAPI scanning. For more information, see Using wildcard to exclude mailbox folders.

If you are configuring mailbox exclusions from ePolicy Orchestrator, you need to provide the complete path manually.
3 Click Apply to save the settings.
This exclusion overrides the Outbox Scanning in the Microsoft Virus Scanning API (VSAPI) settings in the On-Access settings page that you configured already. For example, if you exclude the outbox scanning for a user, mailbox exclusion setting overrides the global outbox scanning.
For more information on mailbox exclusion examples, see Examples of using wildcards for mailbox exclusions.