Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C690 User Guide

 

Understand how to use Telnet with the appliance. See 

Review the example in 

Enable Cisco Anti-Spam on a mail policy. 

See the most recent update for each component

If an update has not occurred, or a server has not 
been configured, “Never Updated” is displayed. 

See if an update is available 

—

Update rules if updates are available 

Click Update Now. 

Test your configuration.

Test your configuration using the 

X-advertisement: spam

 header.

For testing purposes, Cisco Anti-Spam 
considers any message with an 
X-header formatted as 

X-Advertisement: spam

 to be spam. 

The test message you send with this header is flagged by 
Cisco Anti-Spam, and you can confirm that the actions 
you configured for the mail policy (

Use this header with one of the following: 

Use SMTP commands to send a test message with 
this header. See 

.

Use the 

trace

 command and include this header. See 

.

Evaluate Anti-Spam 
engine efficacy.

Evaluate the product using a live mail 
stream directly from the Internet. 

For a list of ineffective evaluation approaches that you 
should avoid, see