Enabling or disabling email feature extraction using the CLI

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Use the CLI commands in this procedure to enable or disable the Email Security - Server appliance to extract email features from an email such as the header, message body, or attachments to determine whether the email should be submitted for further analysis.

Note

You can enable or disable email feature extraction only using the CLI. This feature is enabled by default.

Prerequisites

  • Administrator or Operator access to the Email Security - Server appliance

To enable email feature extraction:
  1. Go to CLI configuration mode.

    hostname > enable
    hostname # configure terminal
  2. Enable email feature extraction on the appliance.

    hostname (config) # email-analysis policy feature-extractor enable
  3. Save your changes.

    hostname (config) # write memory
  4. Verify the status of email feature extraction.

    hostname (config) # show email-analysis policy
    Email-Analysis Policy:
        .
        .
        .
        .
       Invoke Email Feature Extraction: yes
        .
        .
        .
        .
To disable email feature extraction:
  1. Go to CLI configuration mode.

    hostname > enable
    hostname # configure terminal
  2. Disable email feature extraction.

    hostname (config) # no email-analysis policy feature-extractor enable
  3. Save your changes.

    hostname (config) # write memory
  4. Verify the status of email feature extraction.

    hostname (config) # show email-analysis policy
    Email-Analysis Policy:
        .
        .
        .
        .
       Invoke Email Feature Extraction: no
        .
        .
        .
        .