IRONPORT icon   Ironport – Strip DisplayName from From header



Yesterday I came across a request in which for a group of email users, the display name must be removed when sending to recipients outside the organization.

Concretely, those whose email is in format XXXX@domain.com  (where XXXX are digits) must be “anonymized”. For example:

When certain of those users sends an email to an internal recipient, the header from should … Read more

IRONPORT icon   Ironport – Schedule automation scripts on Windows



On a previous post I explained how to Automate Ironport commands / scripts from Windows. At the end of the post I suggested configuring the task scheduler to execute a bat script, for example, to save a backup copy of the configuration… So, here we go!

Example 1: Simple configuration backup via email

Assuming all the necessary preparations … Read more

IRONPORT icon   Ironport – Automate commands / scripts from Linux



In a previous post (Linux: SSH connection without password (RSA public-key) I showed the way to configure a non-interactive SSH connection from-to a Linux system.

If the target system is a Ironport ESA device, the configuration is almost the same (generation of the key pair and configuration of the private one). But to install the new public key on … Read more

IRONPORT icon   Ironport – Automate commands / scripts from Windows



In another post we saw the way to configure a SSH connection to Linux without password via public/private key. To allow SSH connection without interaction (without password) to Cisco Ironport ESA (Email Security Appliance) from a Windows machine is a bit different. These are the different steps:

Generate public/private keys

To generate the keys, we will use Puttygen (PuTTY Key Read more