Cisco Email Security Appliance: Configuring Spam Quarantine and LDAP Validation

Configuring Spam Quarantine and LDAP Validation

Question

When the Spam Quarantine is configured on the Cisco ESA, what validates end-users via LDAP during login to the End-User Quarantine?

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Explanations

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A. B. C. D.

C.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/email-security-appliance/118692-configure-esa-00.html

When Spam Quarantine is configured on the Cisco ESA, it provides a secure and reliable way to filter and quarantine unsolicited email messages before they reach the recipient's inbox. The Spam Quarantine feature uses several mechanisms to authenticate end-users before allowing them to access their quarantined messages. One of these mechanisms is LDAP authentication, which is used to validate the end-user's credentials during login to the End-User Quarantine.

Out of the given answer options, option C, Spam Quarantine End-User Authentication Query, is the correct answer. This query is used to validate end-users via LDAP during login to the End-User Quarantine. It queries the LDAP server for the end-user's credentials, including the username and password, to ensure that the user is authorized to access the quarantined messages. Once the user is authenticated, they can access their quarantined messages and perform actions on them, such as releasing them to their inbox or deleting them.

Option A, Enabling the End-User Safelist/Blocklist feature, is not directly related to LDAP authentication during login to the End-User Quarantine. This feature allows end-users to manage their own lists of trusted senders (safelist) and blocked senders (blocklist) and helps to reduce the number of false positives and false negatives in the spam filter.

Option B, Spam Quarantine External Authentication Query, is not a valid option as there is no such query or mechanism available in the Spam Quarantine feature.

Option D, Spam Quarantine Alias Consolidation Query, is also not related to LDAP authentication during login to the End-User Quarantine. This query is used to consolidate the email addresses of users with multiple aliases or email addresses into a single user profile to simplify the management of quarantined messages.