Enabling and Configuring the Spam Quarantine on the Legacy Web Interface

Procedure


Step 1

Select Management Appliance > Centralized Services > Spam Quarantine.

Step 2

If you are enabling the spam quarantine for the first time after running the System Setup Wizard:

  1. Click Enable.

  2. Review the end user license agreement, then click Accept.

Step 3

If you are editing spam quarantine settings, click Edit Settings.

Step 4

Specify options:

Option

Description

Quarantine IP Interface

Quarantine Port

By default, the spam quarantine uses the Management interface and port 6025. The IP interface is the interface on the Security Management appliance that is configured to listen for incoming mail. The quarantine port is the port number that the sending appliances use in their external quarantine settings.

If your Email Security appliances are not on the same network as your Security Management appliance, then you must use the Management interface.

Deliver Messages Via

All outgoing quarantine-related email (such as spam notifications and messages released from the spam quarantine) must be delivered via another appliance or server that is configured to send messages.

You can route these messages through an SMTP or groupware server, or you can specify the outbound listener interface of an appliance (typically the Data 2 interface).

The alternate address is used for load balancing and failover.

If you have multiple appliances , you can use the outbound listener interface of any managed appliances for the primary and alternate addresses. Both must use the same interface (either Data 1 or Data 2) as the outbound listener.

Read instructions on the screen for additional caveats about these addresses.

Schedule Delete After

Specify the number of days to hold messages before deleting them.

Cisco recommends that you configure the quarantine to delete older messages to prevent the quarantine from filling to capacity, but you can elect not to schedule automatic deletion.

Notify Cisco Upon Message Release

Check the Send a copy of released messages to Cisco for analysis(recommended) checkbox if you wish to notify Cisco upon message release.

Spam Quarantine Appearance

Logo

By default, the Cisco logo is displayed at the top of the spam quarantine page when the user logs in to view quarantined messages.

You can view the logo on both new and legacy web interface.

To use a custom logo instead, upload the logo. The logo should be a .jpg, .gif, or .png file that is at most 50 pixels high by 500 pixels wide.

Login page message

(Optional) Specify a login page message. This message is shown to end users and administrators when they log in to view the quarantine.

If you do not specify a message, the following message appears:

Enter your login information below. If you are unsure what to enter, please contact your administrator.

Administrative Users

See Configuring Administrative User Access to the Spam Quarantine.

Step 5

Submit and commit your changes.


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