Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C160 Mode D'Emploi
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Cisco AsyncOS 8.0.1 for Email User Guide
Chapter 13 Anti-Spam
Testing Anti-Spam
Sending an Email to the Appliance to Test Cisco 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 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?
Testing Anti-Spam Configuration: Example Using SMTP
For this example, the mail policy must be configured to receive messages for the test address and the
HAT must accept the test connection.
HAT must accept the test connection.
# telnet IP_address_of_IronPort_Appliance_with_IronPort_Anti-Spam port
220 hostname ESMTP
helo example.com
250 hostname
mail from: <test@example.com>
250 sender <test@example.com> ok
rcpt to: <test@address>
250 recipient <test@address> ok
data
354 go ahead
Subject: Spam Message Test