Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance X1050 Guía Del Usuario
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User Guide for AsyncOS 9.8 for Cisco Email Security Appliances
Appendix C Example of Mail Policies and Content Filters
Overview of Incoming Mail Policies
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Newly Added Policy — Engineering Team
Note
At this point, both newly created policies have the same settings applied to them as those in the default
policy. Messages to users of either policy will match; however, the mail processing settings are not any
different from the default policy. Therefore, messages that match users in the “Sales_Group” or
“Engineering” policies will not be processed any differently than the default policy.
policy. Messages to users of either policy will match; however, the mail processing settings are not any
different from the default policy. Therefore, messages that match users in the “Sales_Group” or
“Engineering” policies will not be processed any differently than the default policy.
Default, Custom, and Disabled
The key at the bottom of the table shows how the color coding of cells for specific policies relates to the
policy defined for the default row:
policy defined for the default row:
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Yellow shading shows that the policy is using the same settings as the default policy.
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No shading (white) shows that the policy is using different settings than the default policy.
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Grey shading shows that the security service has been disabled for the policy.
Creating Mail Policies for Different Groups of Senders and Recipients
In this part of the example, you will edit the two policies just created in the previous section.
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For the sales group, you will change the anti-spam settings to be even more aggressive than the
default policy. (See
default policy. (See
The default policy of dropping positively identified spam messages will be kept. However, in this
example, you will change the setting for marketing messages so that they will be sent to the Spam
quarantine.
example, you will change the setting for marketing messages so that they will be sent to the Spam
quarantine.
This aggressive policy has the effect of minimizing unwanted messages being sent to sales team
inboxes.
inboxes.
See
for more information on anti-spam settings.
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For the engineering team, customize the Outbreak Filters feature setting so that it will modify the
URLs in suspicious messages, except for links to example.com. Attachment files with the extension
“dwg” will be bypassed by the Outbreak Filter scanning.
URLs in suspicious messages, except for links to example.com. Attachment files with the extension
“dwg” will be bypassed by the Outbreak Filter scanning.
See
for more information on configuring Outbreak Filters.
To edit the anti-spam settings for the sales team policy:
Procedure
Step 1
Click the link for the Anti-Spam security service (the Anti-Spam) column in the sales policy row.
Because the policy was just added, the link is named:
(use default)
.