Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C650 ユーザーガイド

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Cisco AsyncOS 9.5 for Email User Guide
 
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Configuring the Gateway to Receive Email
Overview of Configuring the Gateway to Receive Email
The appliance functions as the email gateway for your organization, servicing email connections, 
accepting messages, and relaying them to the appropriate systems. The appliance can service email 
connections from the Internet to recipients hosts inside your network, and from systems inside your 
network to the Internet. Typically, email connection requests use Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). 
The appliance services SMTP connections by default, and acts as the SMTP gateway, also known as a 
mail exchanger or “MX,” for the network.
The appliance uses listeners to service incoming SMTP connection requests, A listener describes an 
email processing service that is configured on a particular IP interface. Listeners apply to email entering 
the appliance, from either the Internet or from systems within your network trying to reach the Internet. 
Use listeners to specify criteria that messages and connections must meet in order to be accepted and for 
messages to be relayed to recipient hosts. You can think of a listener as an “SMTP daemon” running on 
a specific port for each IP address specified. Also, listeners define how the appliance communicates with 
systems that try to send email to the appliance. 
You can create the following types of listeners:
Public. Listens for and accepts email messages coming in from the Internet. Public listeners receive 
connections from many hosts and direct messages to a limited number of recipients. 
Private. Listens for and accepts email messages coming from systems within the network, typically 
from internal groupware and email servers (POP/IMAP), intended for recipients outside the network 
in the Internet. Private listeners receive connections from a limited (known) number of hosts and 
direct messages to many recipients.
When you create a listener, you also must specify the following information:
Listener properties. Define global properties that apply to all listeners, and properties specific to 
each listener. For example, you can specify the IP interface and port to use for a listener, and whether 
it is a public or private listener. For details on how to do this, see 
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