Testing newsletter, marketing mail and suspicious URLs dispositions

Products

• Messaging Gateway
• Messaging Gateway for Service Providers

Issue/Introduction

You need to test the newsletter, marketing mail, or suspicious URLs filtering features in Messaging Gateway to confirm that the filtering policies are operating as expected.

Resolution

 To test the different dispositions:

1. Configure / enable the product to have the detect these different types of messages as per product documentation.
2. Send an email from an external source that must include one of the following URLs in the body of the mail to test each of the new categories. We suggest copying and pasting the URL into the test message as all characters must match exactly as per the following samples:

• Marketing Mail: http://this-is-a-test-url-for-marketing-mail-rules.co.symc
• Newletter: http://this-is-a-test-url-for-newsletter-rules.co.symc
• Suspicious URL: http://this-is-a-test-url-for-suspicious-url-rules.co.symc

The test messages should be treated as defined into the Symantec product to confirm the feature is working correctly.