{"id":4053,"date":"2026-06-08T18:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/en\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=4053"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:02:17","slug":"what-happens-when-an-msg-license-expires-or-is-deactivated","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/support-articles\/what-happens-when-an-msg-license-expires-or-is-deactivated\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when an MSG license expires or is deactivated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>What happens when the F-Secure Messaging Security Gateway (MSG) license has expired or been deactivated? Will emails be blocked or bypass the MSG appliance?<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>In the event that the MSG license has expired or been deactivated, for license migration purposes. The appliance itself will keep functioning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mails will not be blocked, mail will flow normally<\/li>\n<li>The appliance will not receive Anti-Virus or spam-definitions\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Some modules will not be accessible, for example Smart Search and Encryption<\/li>\n<li>Current rules in place will still be applied<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when the license has expired? Will the email be blocked or bypassed the MSG?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[106],"class_list":["post-4053","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000005626","source_version":3,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-06-08 15:02:17","import_hash":"7803de2af5e1c5e1afad665baa97c9a6af6a9809","vanilla_article_id":31173,"vanilla_url":"https:\/\/community.withsecure.com\/en\/kb\/articles\/31173-what-happens-when-an-msg-license-expires-or-is-deactivated","vanilla_kb_id":30,"vanilla_category_id":103,"machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":0,"reactions_helpful_no":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/4053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}