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AsyncOS 9.1.2 for Cisco Email Security Appliances User Guide
Chapter 30 Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines
Managing Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines
In addition, messages released before their expected retention time has passed can have additional
operations performed on them, such as adding an X-Header. For more information, see Configuring
Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines, page 30-5.
Checking the Settings of System-Created Quarantines
Before you use quarantines, customize the settings of the default quarantines, including the Unclassified
quarantine.
Related Topics
• Configuring Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines, page 30-5
Configuring Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines
Before You Begin
• If you are editing an existing quarantine, see About Editing Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantine
Settings, page 30-6.
• Understand how messages in quarantines are automatically managed, including retention times and
default actions. See Retention Time for Messages in Quarantines, page 30-3, and Default Actions
for Automatically Processed Quarantined Messages, page 30-4.
• Determine which users you want to have access to each quarantine, and create users and custom user
roles accordingly. For details, see Which User Groups Can Access Policy, Virus, and Outbreak
Quarantines, page 30-10.
Procedure
Step 1 Choose Monitor > Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines.
Step 2 Do one of the following:
• Click Add Policy Quarantine.
• Click a quarantine to edit.
Step 3 Enter information.
Keep the following in mind:
• If you do not want messages in this quarantine to be processed before the end of the Retention Period
you specify, even when quarantine disk space is full, deselect Free up space by applying default
action on messages upon space overflow.
Do not select this option for all quarantines. The system must be able to make space by deleting
messages from at least one quarantine.
• If you select Release as the default action, you can specify additional actions to apply to messages
that are released before their retention period has passed: