Enabling or disabling soft bounce using the CLI

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Soft bounce is enabled by default. Use the CLI commands in this procedure to enable or disable soft bounce.

To disable soft bounce:

  1. Go to CLI configuration mode.

    hostname > enable
    hostname # configure terminal
  2. Disable soft bounce.

    hostname (config) # no email-analysis mta softbounce
  3. View soft bounce configuration for the Email Security - Server appliance. In the following example, soft bounce is disabled:

    hostname (config) # show email-analysis mta config 
      Email MTA Configuration:
        smtp-bind-address :              0.0.0.0
        client-connection-limit :        50
        default-process-limit :          102400
        header-size-limit :              50
        hopcount-limit :                 50
        destination-concurrency-limit :  50
        max-queue-lifetime :             5
        max-bounced-lifetime :           5
        message-size-limit :             990
        smtp-line-length-limit :         300
        smtpd-timeout :                  20
        tls-received-header :            yes
        softbounce :                     no
        client-header :                  no
        pickup-timeout :                 60
        minimal_backoff_time :           300
    	    
    	.
    	.
    	.
  4. Save your changes.

    hostname (config) # write memory
  5. (Optional). Modify the non-delivery report. Refer to Configuring the non-delivery report using the CLI

To enable soft bounce:

  1. Go to CLI configuration mode.

    hostname > enable
    hostname # configure terminal
  2. Enable soft bounce.

    hostname (config) # email-analysis mta softbounce
  3. View soft bounce configuration for the appliance Email Security - Server. In the following example, soft bounce is enabled:

    hostname (config) # show email-analysis mta config 
      Email MTA Configuration:
        smtp-bind-address :              0.0.0.0
        client-connection-limit :        50
        default-process-limit :          102400
        header-size-limit :              50
        hopcount-limit :                 50
        destination-concurrency-limit :  50
        max-queue-lifetime :             5
        max-bounced-lifetime :           5
        message-size-limit :             990
        smtp-line-length-limit :         300
        smtpd-timeout :                  20
        tls-received-header :            yes
        softbounce :                     yes
        client-header :                  no
        pickup-timeout :                 60
        minimal_backoff_time :           300
    	    
    	.
    	.
    	.
  4. Save your changes.

    hostname (config) # write memory