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Firewall

Protection profile options

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Configuring IPS options

Figure 110:Protection profile IPS options

The following options are available for IPS through the protection profile. See

“IPS” on

page 277

for more IPS configuration options.

Configuring content archive options

Figure 111:Protection profile content archive options

Return e-mail DNS check Enable or disable checking that the domain specified in the reply-to

or from address has an A or MX record.

MIME headers check

Enable or disable checking source MIME headers against the

configured spam filter MIME header list.

Banned word check

Enable or disable checking source email against the configured

spam filter banned word list.

Spam Action

The action for the spam filter to take. Tagged allows you to append

a custom tag to the subject or header of email identified as spam.

For SMTP, if you have virus scan or splice (CLI) enabled, you will

only be able to discard spam email. (Note that splice is enabled

automatically when you enable virus scanning.) Discard

immediately drops the connection. Without splice or scanning

enabled, you can chose to tag or discard SMTP spam.
You can tag email by adding a custom word or phrase to the subject

or inserting a MIME header and value into the email header. You

can choose to log any spam action in the event log.

Append to

Choose to append the tag to the subject or MIME header of the

email identified as spam.

Append with

Enter a word or phrase (tag) to append to email identified as spam.

The maximum length is 63 characters.

Note: Some popular email clients cannot filter messages based on the MIME header. Check
your email client features before deciding how to tag spam.

IPS Signature

Enable or disable signature based intrusion detection and

prevention for all protocols.

IPS Anomaly

Enable or disable anomaly based intrusion detection and

prevention for all protocols.

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