Managing user validation/authentication options

Administrator Help | Forcepoint Email Security | Version 8.4.x

After you define your domain groups, you can determine recipient validation and user authentication settings for users in the user directories you create. See Managing domain and IP address groups for information about creating domain groups.

The following types of user validation/authentication are available:

Recipient validation, in which a message recipient is validated before a message is received

SMTP authentication, in which a message sender is authenticated before a message is received

Personal Email authentication, in which a user is authenticated before accessing the Personal Email Manager facility for managing blocked email. See Configuring Personal Email Manager End User Options for details about the Personal Email Manager end-user tool.

Distribution list validation, in which individual members of an email distribution list are validated. If an individual recipient in the group is invalid, the message is rejected for that individual. Other, valid recipients in the distribution list receive the message.

Ensure you include group email addresses in your user directories if you want to use the distribution list validation option. A message to an invalid group alias is rejected for the entire group of recipients.

Users in a domain group are verified against the corresponding user directory, and specified authentication settings are applied.


	Important You may create multiple Personal Email Manager user authentication groups. However, any protected domain group (as defined in Settings > Users > Domain Groups) may be included in only 1 Personal Email Manager user authentication group. Including a protected domain group in more than 1 Personal Email Manager user authentication group may result in that domain group's users being denied access to the Personal Email Manager facility. Be sure that you add all the user directories that contain the users in this protected domain group to the associated Personal Email Manager authentication group.

Click Add to create new recipient validation/authentication settings.

Click the name of existing authentication settings to modify the settings.

Remove a set of authentication settings by selecting it on the User Authentication page. Mark the check box next to the name of the settings. Click Delete.