Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance X1070 User Guide
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Cisco AsyncOS 9.1 for Email User Guide
Chapter 40 Testing and Troubleshooting
Debugging Mail Flow Using Test Messages: Trace
After you have entered the values, click Start Trace. A summary of all features configured on the system
affecting the message is printed.
affecting the message is printed.
You can upload message bodies from your local file system. (In the CLI, you can test with message
bodies you have uploaded to the
bodies you have uploaded to the
/configuration
directory. See
more information on placing files for import onto the Cisco appliance.)
After the summary is printed, you are prompted to view the resulting message and re-run the test
message again. If you enter another test message, the Trace page and the
message again. If you enter another test message, the Trace page and the
trace
command uses any
previous values from
you entered.
Note
The sections of configuration tested by the
trace
command listed in
are performed in order.
This can be extremely helpful in understanding how the configuration of one feature affects another. For
example, a recipient address transformed by the domain map feature will affect the address as it is
evaluated by the RAT. A recipient that is affected by the RAT will affect the address as it is evaluated by
alias table, and so on.
example, a recipient address transformed by the domain map feature will affect the address as it is
evaluated by the RAT. A recipient that is affected by the RAT will affect the address as it is evaluated by
alias table, and so on.
Table 40-2
Viewing Output When Performing a Trace
trace Command Section
Output
Host Access Table (HAT) and
Mail Flow Policy Processing
Mail Flow Policy Processing
The Host Access Table settings for the listener you specified are
processed. The system reports which entry in the HAT matched from
the remote IP address and remote domain name you entered. You can
see the default mail flow policies and sender groups and which one
matched the given entries.
processed. The system reports which entry in the HAT matched from
the remote IP address and remote domain name you entered. You can
see the default mail flow policies and sender groups and which one
matched the given entries.
If the Cisco appliance was configured to reject the connection (either
through a REJECT or TCPREFUSE access rule), the
through a REJECT or TCPREFUSE access rule), the
trace
command
exits at the point in the processing.
For more information on setting HAT parameters, see
Envelope Sender Address Processing
These sections summarize how the appliance configuration affects the Envelope Sender you supply.
(That is, how the MAIL FROM command would be interpreted by the configuration of the appliance.)
The
(That is, how the MAIL FROM command would be interpreted by the configuration of the appliance.)
The
trace
command prints “
Processing MAIL FROM:
” before this section.
Default Domain
If you specified that a listener to change the default sender domain of
messages it receives, any change to the Envelope Sender is printed in
this section.
messages it receives, any change to the Envelope Sender is printed in
this section.
For more information, see
.