Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C650 Guía Del Usuario
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Cisco AsyncOS 8.0 for Email User Guide
Chapter 13 Anti-Spam
Testing Anti-Spam
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Testing Anti-Spam
Sending an Email to the Appliance to Test Cisco IronPort Anti-Spam
Before You Begin
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Understand how to use Telnet with the appliance. See
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Review the example in
Procedure
Step 1
Enable Cisco IronPort Anti-Spam on a mail policy.
Step 2
Send a test email that includes the following header to a user in that mail policy:
X-Advertisement: spam
Use SMTP commands with Telnet to send this message to an address to which you have access.
Step 3
Check the mailbox of the test account and confirm that the test message was correctly delivered based
upon the actions you configured for the mail policy.
upon the actions you configured for the mail policy.
For example:
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Was the subject line altered?
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Was your additional custom header added?
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Was the message delivered to an alternate address?
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Was the message dropped?
To
Do This
More Information
Test your configuration.
Test your configuration using the
X-advertisement: spam
header.
For testing purposes, Cisco IronPort
Anti-Spam considers any message with
an X-header formatted as
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 IronPort Anti-Spam, and you can confirm that the
actions you configured for the mail policy (
Cisco IronPort Anti-Spam, and you can confirm that the
actions you configured for the mail policy (
Use this header with one of the following:
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Use SMTP commands to send a test message with
this header. See
this header. See
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Use the
trace
command and include this header. See
Evaluate Anti-Spam
engine efficacy.
engine efficacy.
Evaluate the product using a live mail
stream directly from the Internet.
stream directly from the Internet.
For a list of ineffective evaluation approaches that you
should avoid, see
should avoid, see
.