Policy Overview

Policies provide the filtering definition for your PureMessage installation. Policies consist of rules; rules consist of tests and actions. As messages pass through the policy, rules are executed on the message in the order of their configuration. Each rule can have a "stop" action, which prevents the message from being processed any further.

Configure policies on the Policy tab of the PureMessage Manager, or by using the pmx-policy command-line program. Before editing a policy, it is strongly recommended that you back up the current policy.

Note: The policy.siv script is never automatically updated, but you can update it manually. If you want to update a modified policy.siv script, first back it up, then run the following command:
pmx-policy integ --regen

This command generates a new default policy based on the latest policy template. To restore your modifications, you should run a diff between the backed up, modified version and the regenerated version, and you must then manually paste in the changes that you want to preserve.

Related concepts
Policy Tab
Backing Up and Reverting Policies
Related information
pmx-policy