Symantec Messaging Gateway Primary Use Case
We use the solution for email gateway security.
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View full review »We use the solution to secure our data and emails.
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Symantec Messaging Gateway
June 2025

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Eldad Ohana
System Administrator at Haaretz
We primarily use the solution for mail. All messages go through the gateway. It helps maintain security. It helps with spam and protects emails.
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SureshKumaresan
Cyber Security Consultant at HCL Technologies
I have supported the product for a couple of customers and handled migrations for others.
View full review »I use Symantec Messaging Gateway for email security, content monitoring, and as an antimalware solution.
View full review »The primary use case of the solution is to future inbound and outbound emails, applying content, filtering policies, and power policies. Basically, the content filter is based on the dictionary words, and most of them integrate SMG with DLP to quarantine emails which violates the data protection policies.
View full review »We primarily use the solution for security - to protect us from malware and to have anti-spam, content filtering. It's for that initial inspection of email before it gets into our environment.
Symantec provides a layer of protection on the email gateway. It checks for malware, IP, domain, etc.
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Martin Clemente
Technician for infrastructure at SOFIA COOOLBOX PoP SULTAN
We use Symantec Messaging Gateway as an anti-spam solution. We have about twenty domains we use it on, plus our email accounts on Office on the cloud, and for our on-premise console, we utilize Symantec Messaging Gateway.
View full review »I've been using Messaging Gateway for ten years.
View full review »We use it as a perimeter gateway where it scans for spam. We use all the features and configure all the features, like malware and content filtering. But most of the requests come for content filtering, where we need filters based on some specific words or subjects or based on the reports that come from government agencies.
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Alex Wu
Sr. IT Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 201-500 employees
We primarily use it as an email gateway for security. We use it for blocking spam.
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Rameshwer Sharma
Senior System Administrator at Pulsar Knowledge Centre Pvt. Ltd.
We primarily use this solution to encrypt outgoing emails to the recipient. That is why I bought the solution from Symantec Messaging Gateway.
View full review »Our primary use case is the protection of email. We are linked to Microsoft Office 365 and all of our emails, inbound or outbound, are processed through Symantec.
View full review »Symantec Messaging Gateway is used for email security.
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Pedro Chidumo
Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it for content filtering and malware protection.
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Farrukh Dawoodani
Technical Consultant & Programme Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We use the solution for its advanced virus protection, phishing and other features.
View full review »We are a consulting company and this is one of the solutions that we have implemented for our clients.
One of our clients is in the automobile industry and we implemented the entire suite that consisted of email security, network traffic security, and end-user security including the setting of permissions and restrictions. We were managing then entire security landscape for more than 100,000 users.
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Symantec Messaging Gateway
June 2025

Learn what your peers think about Symantec Messaging Gateway. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: June 2025.
861,524 professionals have used our research since 2012.