Understanding the policy tester window

The policy tester is designed to emulate Microsoft Outlook as closely as possible, so it will be familiar to most users:

The upper section provides access to the policy tester toolbar, and is used to define standard email details (such as sender and recipient) and the lower section contains an editor, so you can type the body of the test email. From here you can create a new message using the editor, save a message for re-use, or load a previously saved message for testing.

The policy tester toolbar

Toolbar option	Summary
	Having set required test criteria, use this option to run the current policy test (or use the large run test button in the main section of the policy tester)
	Rather than create a new policy test, choose this option to re-use a previously saved test.
	Having set required criteria, use this option to save the existing test for re-use.
	Use this option to clear all settings in the policy tester and start from a 'clean' point.

The email editor toolbar

The policy tester editor incorporates familiar word processing functionality, using a formatting toolbar:

Additional options

The policy tester is designed to emulate Microsoft Outlook as closely as possible, therefore additional options are provided so that you can test the full range of Outlook options. When the options button is selected from the editor toolbar, additional message options are displayed, as summarized below:

Security settings

• Choose to encrypt message content and attachments - the message is not actually encrypted but the Policy Tester emulates the process of doing so

• Choose to add digital signature to this message - a signature is not actually applied but the Policy Tester emulates the process of doing so

Message settings

• Set the importance level to low, normal or high

• Set the sensitivity level to normal, confidential, personal or private

Delivery options

• Specify an email address to have replies sent to

• Specify a send date (which will override the actual test date)

Headers

If you are testing a policy which is defined to apply an automated response based upon a specific email header, use these options to add that header to the test email.