About policy violation notifications
Notifications are the messages that are sent when a policy is violated, and the policy action is to
Send notification
. Notifications are different from annotations in that annotations are added to the message, while a notification is a separate message. When you specify to send a notification, the original message is delivered to the original recipient, unless you specify an additional action to do otherwise. Notifications can be used for any type of policy. You can select the notation that you want to use when you specify the action for a policy.Symantec Messaging Gateway provides several predefined notifications that you can use. You can also create your own notification message. Predefined notifications can be modified and can only be deleted if they are not used in a policy.
Notifications can be sent to any of the following people:
- Message sender
- Message recipient
- Third party (such as an administrator)
You can customize the notification message subject and body text with variables. For example:
The message concerning $subject$ sent by $sender$ to $recipients$ was stripped of $attachments$.