IronPort - advanced configuration guide

Chapter 6 Using Message Filters to Enforce Email Policies
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Filter with a syntax error.
Deleting a Message Filter
Filter with actions referring to non-existent system resources such as interfaces.
delete [seqnum|filtname|range]
Deletes the filter(s) identified.
Moving a Message Filter
The following conditions can cause errors:
No filter with a given filter name.
No filter with a given sequence number.
move [seqnum|filtname|range seqnum|last]
Moves the filters identified by the first parameter to the position identified by the second parameter. If
the second parameter is the keyword last, the filters are moved to the end of the list of filters. If more
than one filter is being moved, their ordering remains the same in relation to one another.
The following conditions can cause errors:
No filter with a given filter name.
No filter with a given sequence number.
Sequence number beyond the current range of sequence numbers.
Movement would result in no change of sequence.
Activating and Deactivating a Message Filter
A given message filter is either active or inactive and it is also either valid or invalid. A message filter
is only used for processing if it is both active and valid. You change an existing filter from active to
inactive (and back again) via the CLI. A filter is invalid if it refers to a listener or interface which does
not exist (or has been removed).
Note You can determine if a filter is inactive by its syntax; AsyncOS changes the colon after the filter name
to an exclamation point for inactive filters. If you use this syntax when entering or importing a filter,
AsyncOS marks the filter as inactive.
For example, the following benign filter named “filterstatus” is entered. It is then made inactive using
the filter -> set subcommand. Note that when the details of the filter are shown, the colon has been
changed to an exclamation point (and is bold in the following example).
mail3.example.com> filters
Choose the operation you want to perform:
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