Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C160 Mode D'Emploi

IronPort Mail Merge is only available on the IronPort C300D appliance.

IronPort Mail Merge removes the burden of generating individual personalized 
messages from customer systems. By removing the need to generate thousands of 
individual messages and transmit them between message generating systems and 
the email gateway, users benefit from the decreased load on their systems and 
increased throughput of email delivery.

With IPMM, a single message body is created with variables representing 
locations in the message to be replaced for personalization. For each individual 
message recipient, only the recipient email address and the variable substitutions 
need to be transmitted to the email gateway. In addition, IPMM can be used to 
send certain recipients specific “parts” of the message body, while excluding 
certain parts from others recipients. (For example, suppose you needed to include 
a different copyright statements at the end of your messages to recipients in two 
different countries.) 

Using the Mail Merge function of the IronPort C300D appliance has many 
benefits: 

Ease of use for the mail administrator. The complexities of creating 
personalized messages for each recipient are removed, as IPMM provides 
variable substitution and an abstracted interface in many common languages.

Reduced load on message generation systems. By requiring one copy of the 
message body and a table of required substitutions, most of the message 
generation “work” is off-loaded from message generation systems and moved 
to the IronPort C300D appliance.

Increased delivery throughput. By reducing the resources necessary to accept 
and queue thousands of incoming messages, the IronPort appliance can 
significantly increase out-bound delivery performance.