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Knowledgebase : Provisioning
This KB article assumes that an organisation account has been created
in Proofpoint Essentials, and a privileged user account exists and is
being used to manage this organisation. If you have a question related
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In order to register a domain for email relay within Proofpoint
Essentials, you will need verify ownership of the domain.
STEP 1: CREATE YOUR DOMAIN IN PROOFPOINT ESSENTIALS
* Login to Proofpoint Essentials
* Click on _Company Settings_
* Click ...
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Use the statements in bold text below as a guide to choose the
scenario most applicable to you.. They are listed in order or
preference:
IF YOU HAVE CONTROL OVER YOUR MAIL SERVER AND IT'S FIREWALL, make sure
that it can receive incoming SMTP (TCP port ...
Redirecting customers MX records to point towards Proofpoint
Essentials is crucial to the successful deployment of the solution and
ensures all email is both filtered and delivered.
Since we cannot do this for you, it will be necessary to contact your
ho...
This article operates on the basis that the organization in question
has an active account in Proofpoint Essentials, is using our inbound
email service, and has its user email addresses registered in our
Interface.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you activate Essen...
This article is to consolidate links to features available based on
package level and how to configure them.
Available features can be enabled under COMPANY SETTINGS > FEATURES
ALL PACKAGES:
Spam Settings
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When moving from one filtering service to another, or setting up for
the first time, there are steps to include when setting up Proofpoint
Essentials that may be forgotten outside of our standard steps.
Remember to add in our IP ranges
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PRE-REQUISITE
These instructions are for the current archive service, not the legacy
archive.
JOURNALING IN EXCHANGE 2013/2016
Exchange 2013/2016 provide multiple methods for journaling
including:
* Remote (SMTP) journaling
* A copy of all emai...
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For the smoothest deployment possible, you should go through the
following four phases:
1. ACTIVATION
This gives you access to the Administration Console, with one
administrative account, one organization, and one server.
2. PILOT
Add a small gr...
OVERVIEW
Digests are used to allow end users to easily view a list of emails
that have been quarantined.
USER DIGEST
The digest allows users to take the following actions when viewing a
quarantined email:
RELEASE ONCE
Allows user to release a speci...
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Once an account is completely setup on Proofpoint Essentials User
Interface according to the getting started guide found, the
partners/customers should wait until the top of the 30 minutes for the
changes to update across Proofpoint Essentials Network bef...
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Situation
The following steps should be taken to route email outbound from
Office 365 to Proofpoint Essentials. These steps will help you
provision/setup outbound mail-flow
Solution
* Configure Outbound Relaying on Proofpoint Essentials
* C...
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NOTIFICATIONS
Proofpoint Essentials allows organizations to localize and customize
the content of end-user system emails
including the welcome email, password reset email and the quarantine
digest. Content can be localized for the
following languages:
•...
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Customers who have configured a masquerade domain on a virtual SMTP
server may experience problems sending outbound emails through the
Proofpoint Essentials platform. Proofpoint Essentials does not support
the use of masquerade domains - this is because e...
WHAT IS PROOFPOINT ESSENTIALS EMAIL MANAGEMENT PLATFORM?
The service accepts and processes mail on behalf of its' subscribing
customers. It passes safe traffic on and captures viruses, spam or any
malicious content based on the unique set preferences of...
SITUATION
SMTP Discovery (another way to provisioning new users) allows email to
be relayed to non-licensed users. Users become licensed-users when
manually added within a span of 30 days, a specified number of valid
messages are received for that uniq...
Choosing the SMTP Discovery method to add customer accounts will
require a certain amount of on-going management attention and
administration to ensure accounts are up to date and license balances
are accurate.
To make this process more manageable for y...
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The Access Control page is used to limit the permissions of a system
role that is assigned to a user who has rights to access Proofpoint
Essentials. There are 5 roles available to Proofpoint Essentials users
and they operate with the following permission ...
SITUATION
When a subscribing organization is using the Proofpoint Essentials
service the minimum configuration is that one single domain is
filtered by the Proofpoint Essentials service and adding users to the
Proofpoint Essentials interface is an esse...
Proofpoint Essentials filters email for viruses and spam, along with
some admin/user defined rules. The service is cloud based (no on
premise hardware) and acts as a go-between the internet and your mail
server. This is accomplished by modifying the mail ...
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