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Email Addresses

Application control allows the creation of custom email address lists as email address objects. You can only use email address objects with App Rules policies when the Policy Type is SMTP Client. Email address objects can represent individual users or the entire domain. You can also create an email address object that represents a group by adding a list of individual addresses to the object. This provides a way to easily include or exclude a group of users when creating an App Rules policy of type SMTP client. For more information, refer to Policy > App Rules.

For example, you can create an email address object to represent the support group:

After you define the group in an email address object, you can create an SMTP client policy that includes or excludes the group.

Navigate to Policy > App Rules > Add, the settings exclude the support group from a policy that prevents executable files from being attached to outgoing email. You can use the email address object in either the Mail from Included, Mail from Excluded, RCPT to Included, or RCPT to Excluded fields of the SMTP client policy. The Mail from fields refer to the sender of the email. The RCPT to fields refer to the intended recipient.

Although App Rules cannot extract group members directly from Outlook Exchange or similar applications, you can use the member lists in Outlook to create a text file that lists the group members. Then, when you create an email address object for this group, click Upload icon to import the list from your text file. Ensure that each email address is on a line by itself in the text file.

Configuring Email Address Objects

To configure email address object settings

1. Navigate to Object > Match Objects > Email Addresses.

2. Click Addat the top of the page. The E-mail Address Object Settings dialog displays.

   

3. Enter a descriptive name for the email address object in the Email User Object Name field.

4. For Match Type, select one of:

   • Exact Match – To exactly match the email address that you provide.
   • Partial Match – To match any part of the email address.

   • Regex Match – To use a regular expression to match the email address.

5. In the Content field, enter the email id and click Add icon.

   • For example, to match on a domain, select Partial Match in the previous step and then type @ followed by the domain name in the Content field, for example, type: @sonicwall.com. To match on an individual user, select Exact Match in the previous step and then type the full email address in the Content field, for example: jsmith@sonicwall.com.

   • Importing a list of elements from a text file by clicking Upload icon. Each element in the file must be on a line by itself.

     By defining an email address object with a list of users, you can use App Rules to simulate groups.

6. Click Save.

   The Email Address Object is created and displayed in the table.