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How to access Emergency Inbox – The Emergency Inbox feature is available by default to all registered accounts with at least end-user privileges to access the interface. There are a pre-determined number of days that this Emergency Inbox is available. This is termed as Instant Replay in the features.

End-users will need to know the specific URL and use their email credentials to log in:

• EU DC – https://spambrella.cloud-protect.net
• US DC – https://us-spambrella.cloud-protect.net

The Emergency Inbox feature is available for all registered end users across all three packages. However, the availability of this feature is available for maximum 30 days.

End-user Access:

1. Log into the interface. By default, you are at the Account Setup page.
2. From here, you can go directly to the Emergency Inbox from the sub-heading under Account Setup.

Admin Access

As an admin, once you are logged in, go to the Users & Groups tab.

1. By default, you are in the Users sub-heading.
2. Find the end-user you want to go to.
3. Click the end-user’s name/email address or the ‘Edit” link on their line
4. A new sub-heading bar will be available, and click on Emergency Inbox.

The Instant Replay feature allows users to send (or resend) an email from Spambrella to their messaging server. This may be useful in the following situations:

• The original email failed to be delivered (bounced/expired)
• The original email was deleted by the user

If a user is attempting to send an email that has already been sent, they should be aware that if the email already exists in the destination server’s database then many mail systems may not deliver the email again. This will depend on the mail system in use and how it handles duplication.

Microsoft Exchange, for example, has a default duplicate database setting of 7 days. This means if an email comes in with the same messageID and client submit time within 7 days of the original, it will delete it as a duplicate. Therefore the user who uses Instant Replay feature to resend an email less than 7 days old will not get the message.

If you are using Microsoft Exchange and wish to enable retrieving messages within 7 days of receipt of the original, please follow the instructions on how to change this setting, available here.

If you are using another email application you should investigate to see if you have the option to adjust this value.

Instant Replay Feature is available only for the customers who have subscribed to the Business or Professional packages.

Please Note: This feature cannot be used with customers using Office 365 as a mailbox. This is due to how Office 365 handles duplicate message detection.

When moving from one filtering service to another, or setting up for the first time, there are steps to include when setting up Spambrella that may be forgotten outside of our standard steps.

Remember to add in our IP ranges into your firewall.

However, adding to your firewall is not enough, specifically in the case of an existing filtering service going to your mail server. Your mail server itself may have other security protocols in place, especially if using a Microsoft Exchange environment.

Inbound Mail

Like the firewall settings, your mail server may have specific IP ranges that accept mail. Please make sure to add in the Spambrella IP ranges into your current mail server security settings. This is especially important for when moving from a different filtering service and you are only accepting mail your previous providers IPs.

Note: The Spambrella logs will indicate we will be setting your mail status as “Deferred” if we cannot talk to your mail server.

Outbound Mail

For outbound mail, although you may have set-up the smarthost properly, this does not mean mail will flow to the Spambrella smarthost. If you have specific rules in place please check your rules to see if any exist that could contradict sending to the Spambrella server.

Note: Spambrella support would not be able to easily assist you on this. If mail does not flow into our server via SMTP, we would not see anything at all, even in our logs. You would need to diagnose this on your mail server, hence please check your outbound rules and logs first.

General Overview

The Spambrella Archive service does not provide a direct journaling service. Journaling is done on the mail server side with our service. Customer will need to gather the messages on their mail server side, by collecting the messages as designed by their journaling system. 

INBOUND Mail

The Spambrella system will only pass messages that are defined as not spam and contain no identified viruses to your mail server. Any messages caught as spam are quarantined, and once released, will be subject to your journaling rules.

OUTBOUND Mail

As the Spambrella system for outbound mail is optional, we suggest putting rules in place on your mail servers/network to journal email prior to leaving your network. 

MS Exchange

For Microsoft Exchange users, we suggest reading up on Journaling found on the Technet Library:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/

You will need to navigate through the Exchange environment and choose the proper Exchange version. The journaling is found under different topic areas pending your version. We found topics under Messaging Policy and Compliance, as well as Operations. For further assistance, please contact Microsoft directly for support on your Exchange system in regards to Journaling.

Other Mail Servers

For journaling on your mail server please contact the support of your mail server to see if journaling is available.

Situation – The console has four phases of deployment. During your rollout/deployment, you want to know what order to deploy each phase and what each phase includes.

Solution – Manage your Essentials console in the following sequence.

• Activation
• Pilot
• Rollout
• Maintenance

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 group of users and possibly additional administrators. Set up your service.

3. Rollout

Using LDAP Discovery, add your remaining users and domains, and set the filter configurations and access levels as required.

4. Maintenance

On-going support of your users and servers. This may require adjusting filter settings, managing users and domains, and adding new or configuring existing email servers.

Branding

Strategic and Channel Partners have the ability to brand the user interface, welcome emails and quarantine digest with a custom logo and a specific header color. Strategic and channel administrators can only brand their own site. For example: A Strategic Administrator can update the brand of their site but they cannot update the brand of a reseller site.

By default, all companies created under your partner account will use the branding (colour scheme, logo, etc.) you have applied to your partner site. If you would like the company to also have a branded login screen, please follow these steps.

To view current digest settings:

• Make sure you are managing your company (Click on the Home button in the main navigation).
• Click on the Company Settings tab.
• Click on the Branding tab.
• Click on Choose File (and locate new logo).
• Choose an option from the Choose Color Scheme selection list.
• Click Preview.
• Click Save or Cancel.

The logo will be used on the login screen, the main user interface and the quarantine digest email. To access the branded login screen, follow these steps:

To locate URL for branded login screen:

1. Navigate to the login screen.

2. Login using your existing account.

3. The URL in the browser will change once you have successfully logged in.

4. Identify the “eid” value from the URL.

5. Logout

6. Use the eid value and update the URL for future reference.

Logos should be high quality images. It is recommended that the maximum width should not exceed 250 pixels and the maximum height should not exceed 60 pixels.

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Spambrella is available in 4 service packages [Click here to see them]

• Beginner
• Business
• Advanced
• Professional

Partners – When selecting the package type you require for your customer, you are able to choose the appropriate features and modules for your needs contained within a package. Also, you can upgrade, downgrade, or change a user’s license by following the instructions below:

1) Adding / Decreasing Users’ Licences.

Adjust the user Licence number to the required amount and select save button at the bottom of the screen.

• If additional users are added, your Billing and Technical contact will be informed of the change.
• The appropriate entity will then receive a prorated invoice for the changed user count.

2) Enable User capping.

Enabling this feature will not allow customers to add users above the number in the license field. This is useful for partners who sell an annual prepaid agreement and do not want to be billed for any users above that licensed amount, and it forces the customer to contact the partner to order more licenses and be able to add them to the system.

2) Upgrading.

• When selecting an upgrade, you are automatically granted a 14 day trial to the upgraded service.
• After 14 days, you will have the opportunity to confirm the upgrade or continue using your current version.
• If upgraded packages are confirmed invoicing will be charged at a prorated.

3) Downgrading.

• If you wish to downgrade to an alternate package, click on the downgrade button and save your changes.
• The Billing and Technical contact will be informed by email of this decision and the changes will be applied straightaway.

4) Licensing of Users.

• Spambrella does not bill for: Domains, Shared mailboxes/Distribution groups, aliases, etc.
• Spambrella does bill for: Active primary user accounts on any domain (beating hearts).

Auto User Provisioning (SMTP Discovery)

Change a user to a Functional Account

URL Defense Decoder

Disclaimers are an optional feature: consult your administrator to see if they are enabled for your system.

Disclaimers are standard pieces of content that appear at the end of your emails. For environments where outbound mail goes through Essentials and for which disclaimers are enabled, you can define a disclaimer to be added to all your outbound messages.

If you do not define your own disclaimer, the one associated with your company or, if you belong to a group, the one associated with that group, will be used.

How do I set up a disclaimer for outbound email?

When your organization enables the Spambrella Outbound Relay service, it is possible to setup a bespoke disclaimer for all outbound emails sent out from the registered organization.

Simply, login to the interface and under the Administration section click > Account Management > Features > click the checkbox ‘Enable Disclaimers‘.

Now under ‘Security Settings‘ click Email > Disclaimers.

2 textboxes will be displayed on the screen and whatever text you insert into these will be applied to all outbound email.

Can I set up two different disclaimers for one client with two domains?

Yes – simply put the users of each domain into different groups and assign the disclaimer to the group and not the organization – this assumes the secondary email addresses are registered as separate users.

Remember to click Save!

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