Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C160 Mode D'Emploi
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User Guide for AsyncOS 9.8 for Cisco Email Security Appliances
Chapter 42 Optimizing the Appliance for Outbound Mail Delivery Using D-Mode
Sending Bulk Mail Using IronPort Mail Merge (IPMM)
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You can escape special characters using the forward slash “
/
” character when defining variables
key-value pairs. This is useful if your message body contains HTML character entities that might be
mistakenly replaced with variable definitions. (For example, the character entity
mistakenly replaced with variable definitions. (For example, the character entity
™
defines the
HTML character entity for a trademark character. If you created the command
XDFN trade=foo
and
then created a IPMM message containing the HTML character entity “
™
” the assembled
message would contain the variable substitution (“
foo
”) instead of the trademark character. The
same concept is true for the ampersand character “&” which is sometimes used in URLs containing
GET commands.
GET commands.
Example IPMM Conversation
The following is an example IPMM conversation of Example Message #2 (shown above). The message
will be sent to two recipients in this example: “Jane User” and “Joe User.”
will be sent to two recipients in this example: “Jane User” and “Joe User.”
In this example, the type in
bold
represents what you would type in a manual SMTP conversation with
the D-Mode-enabled appliance, type in
monospaced type
represents the responses from the SMTP
server, and italic type represents comments or variables.
A connection is established:
The conversation is started:
Variables and parts are set for each recipient:
220 ESMTP
EHLO
foo
250-ehlo responses from the listener enabled for IPMM
XMRG FROM:<
user@domain.com> [Note: This replaces the
MAIL FROM: SMTP command.]
250 OK
XDFN first_name="Jane" last_name="User" color="red" *PARTS=1,2
[Note: This line defines three variables (
first_name, last_name, and color) and then
uses the *PARTS reserved variable to define that the next recipient defined will receive
message parts numbers 1 and 2.]
250 OK
RCPT TO:<jane@company.com>
250 recipient <jane@company.com> ok
XDFN first_name="Joe" last_name="User" color="black" *PARTS=1
[Note: This line defines three variables (
first_name, last_name, and color) and then
uses the *PARTS reserved variable to define that the next recipient defined will receive
message parts numbers 1 only.]