Filtering provides more granular control over how Enterprise Vault archiving tasks process items during an archiving run.
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Set up and test filtering on a development server before implementing it on your production servers. |
Enterprise Vault provides the following filtering features:
Custom filtering. This feature provides sophisticated filtering. You create rules that select messages by matching one or more attributes, such as email addresses, subject text, message direction or the value of certain message properties.
The rules also include instructions on how selected messages are to be processed. This can include assigning a particular retention category, storing in a specified archive, or marking the message.
Custom properties. This feature is an extension of custom filtering. It enables you to configure Enterprise Vault to index additional properties on messages selected by the custom filters. These properties may be standard properties that a default Enterprise Vault system does not index or they may be properties added to messages by a proprietary, third party application.
Custom properties also introduces the concept of "content categories" for grouping the settings that are to be applied to messages that match a rule. These settings can include the retention category to assign, the archive to use and the additional properties to index.