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AsyncOS 9.1.2 for Cisco Email Security Appliances User Guide
Chapter 13 Anti-Spam
How to Configure the Appliance to Scan Messages for Spam
of users. You can also treat positively identified spam differently from suspected spam in the same
policy. For example, you may want to drop messages positively identified as spam, but quarantine
suspected spam messages.
policy. For example, you may want to drop messages positively identified as spam, but quarantine
suspected spam messages.
For each mail policy, you can specify thresholds for some of the categories, and determine the action to
take for each category. You can assign different users to different mail policies and define different
scanning engines, spam-definition thresholds, and spam-handling actions for each policy.
take for each category. You can assign different users to different mail policies and define different
scanning engines, spam-definition thresholds, and spam-handling actions for each policy.
Note
For information about how and when anti-spam scanning is applied, see
Related Topics
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Anti-Spam Solutions
Your Cisco appliance offers the following anti-spam solutions:
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You can license and enable both these solutions on your Cisco appliance, but you can only use one in a
particular mail policy. You can specify a different anti-spam solution for different groups of users.
particular mail policy. You can specify a different anti-spam solution for different groups of users.
How to Configure the Appliance to Scan Messages for Spam
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Step 1
Enable anti-spam scanning on the Email Security
appliance.
appliance.
Note
Remaining steps in this table apply to both
scanning engine options.
scanning engine options.
If you have feature keys for both Cisco IronPort Anti-Spam
and Intelligent Multi-Scan, you can enable both solutions
on the appliance.
and Intelligent Multi-Scan, you can enable both solutions
on the appliance.
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Step 2
Configure whether to quarantine spam on the local
Email Security appliance or use an external quarantine
on a Security Management appliance.
Email Security appliance or use an external quarantine
on a Security Management appliance.
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Step 3
Define the groups of users whose messages you want to
scan for spam.
scan for spam.
Step 4
Configure the anti-spam scanning rules for the user
groups you defined.
groups you defined.
Step 5
If you want certain messages to skip Cisco Anti-Spam
scanning, create message filters that use the
scanning, create message filters that use the
skip-spamcheck
action.