Symantec Mail Security, Administration Manual

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152 Testing Symantec Mail Security for SMTP
Testing antivirus filtering
To test spam filtering with subject line modification
1 Create a POP3 account on your MDA.
For the SMTP Server setting on this account, specify the IP address of an
enabled Scanner.
2 Compose an email message addressed to an account on the machine running
the Scanner.
3 Give the message a subject that is easy to find such as Test Spam Message.
4 To classify the message as spam, include the following URL on a line by
itself in the message body:
http://www.example.com/url-1.blocked/
5 Send the message.
6 Check the email account to which you sent the message.
You should find a message with the same subject prefixed by the word
[Spam]
.
7 Send a message that is not spam to the same account used in step 5.
8 In the Control Center, click Status > Overview after several minutes have
passed.
The Spam
counter on the Overview page increases by one if filtering is
working.
Testing antivirus filtering
You can verify that antivirus filtering is working correctly by sending a test
message containing a pseudo-virus. This is not a real virus.
To test Antivirus filtering
1 Using your preferred email program, create an email message addressed to a
test account to which a policy is assigned to allow for the cleaning of virus-
infected messages. For information on virus policies, see
“Creating virus
policies” on page 83.
2 Attach a virus test file such as
eicar.COM
to the email.
Virus test files are located at
http://www.eicar.org/
.
3 Send the message.
4 Send a message that does not contain a virus to the same account referenced
in step 1.
5 In the Control Center, click Status > Overview after several minutes pass.