About this task
Clicking Configure in the Expiry and user password
settings section of the Policy: Encryption page
opens the SPX Expiry and Password Limits dialog box. Here you
can configure the periods for SPX option expiry, and notification times. All values
must be entered as days. You can also specify the minimum number of characters
required for passwords.
Follow these steps
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Set one or more of the following:
- In the Keep unused passwords text box, enter the
maximum number of days between password uses that passwords will remain
valid.
- In the Allow secure reply text box, enter the
maximum number of days that the link sent for the secure reply portal
remains valid for recipients of SPX email messages.
- In the Keep delayed emails text box, enter the
number of days that an appliance will hold email while waiting for an
SPX recipient to set a password.
- In the Registration reminder text box, enter the
number of days before an SPX recipient will receive an email reminder to
set a password.
Note
The
Registration reminder
period should be shorter than the
Keep delayed
emails period.
- In the Password strength text box, enter the
minimum number of characters an SPX user must type in order to create a
valid password. The default is passwords that are at least 8
alphanumeric characters in length. The maximum length is 32.
- Select Require special characters to enforce
inclusion of at least one special character in each password. Valid
special characters are shown to recipients when they are setting a
password.
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Click OK.