Cisco Cisco Web Security Appliance S360 Troubleshooting Guide
How do I use SenderBase?
Document ID: 118379
Contributed by Nasir Shakour and Enrico Werner, Cisco TAC
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Oct 13, 2014
Contents
Introduction
How do I use SenderBase?
Related Information
How do I use SenderBase?
Related Information
Introduction
This document describes how SenderBase can be used.
How do I use SenderBase?
You can use SenderBase in a number of ways.
At the SenderBase web site, www.senderbase.org, you can enter IP addresses and network ranges to
research email senders, IP addresses, and sources of suspected spam as well as the IP addresses of
your own mail servers.
research email senders, IP addresses, and sources of suspected spam as well as the IP addresses of
your own mail servers.
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Using DNS−based queries, the Email Security Appliance (ESA) can look up SenderBase scores for
email senders and use those results to throttle, block, or "trust" senders.
email senders and use those results to throttle, block, or "trust" senders.
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Message filters running on the ESA can use the SenderBase score in any way allowed by the filtering
language. For example, SenderBase scores can be tagged into message subjects or body headers, or
they can be factored into filter actions with other information.
language. For example, SenderBase scores can be tagged into message subjects or body headers, or
they can be factored into filter actions with other information.
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Related Information
SenderBase Frequently Asked Questions
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Updated: Oct 13, 2014
Document ID: 118379