Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C690 User Guide

Chapter 4 Quarantines

Configuring the IronPort Spam Quarantines Feature

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Disk Space

Table 4-3

shows the amount of disk space available on each appliance for the

IronPort Spam Quarantine.

End Users Accessing the IronPort Spam Quarantine

End users can access the IronPort Spam quarantine via a link in the notification
they receive. When accessing the quarantine via this method, LDAP or
IMAP/POP authentication is not required (end users do not have to authenticate
themselves). Note that the links present in the notification messages do not expire,
so end users can use these links to view their quarantined messages without
having to authenticate.

Users can also access the quarantine by entering a link in their web browser
directly. When accessing the quarantine via a URL typed into a web browser,
users will have to authenticate. The authentication method — LDAP or “mailbox”
(IMAP/POP) — is defined in the End User Quarantine Access section of the
quarantine settings (see

Configuring End User Quarantine Access, page 4-34

LDAP Authentication

The authentication process for LDAP works like this:

Step 1

A user enters their username and password into the web UI login page.

Step 2

The IronPort Spam quarantine connects to the specified LDAP server either to
perform an anonymous search or as an authenticated user with the specified
“Server Login” DN and password. For Active Directory, you will usually need to

Table 4-3

Disk Space Available for IronPort Spam Quarantine by Cisco
IronPort

Appliance

Model

Disk Space (in GBytes)

C150/160

C350/360/370

C650/660/670

X1050/1060/1070