Introduction
This document describes how to make changes to the configuration on the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) when disclaimers that are intended to be included as a footer of a processed email are being shown as an attachment to the email.
Why are disclaimers in footer displayed as attachments?
Typically, a footer displayed as an attachment occurs when there is an encoding mismatch between the message body and a footer. AsyncOS attempts to encode the entire message in the same encoding as the message body so that the footer will be included in the body (inline) and not included as a separate attachment. However, if the footer cannot be combined with the body, from the ESA CLI you can use the localeconfig command to configure AsyncOS to attempt to promote, or convert, the body text to match the encoding of the footer so that the footer can be included in the body of the message.
myesa.local> localeconfig
Behavior when modifying headers: Use encoding of message body
Behavior for untagged non-ASCII headers: Impose encoding of message body
Behavior for mismatched footer or heading encoding: Only try encoding from message body
Choose the operation you want to perform:
- SETUP - Configure multi-lingual settings.
[]> setup
If a header is modified, encode the new header in the same encoding as the message
body? (Some MUAs incorrectly handle headers encoded in a different encoding than the
body. However, encoding a modified header in the same encoding as the message body
may cause certain characters in the modified header to be lost.) [Y]>
If a non-ASCII header is not properly tagged with a character set and is being used
or modified, impose the encoding of the body on the header during processing and
final representation of the message? (Many MUAs create non-RFC-compliant headers
that are then handled in an undefined way. Some MUAs handle headers encoded in
character sets that differ from that of the main body in an incorrect way. Imposing
the encoding of the body on the header may encode the header more precisely. This
will be used to interpret the content of headers for processing, it will not modify
or rewrite the header unless that is done explicitly as part of
the processing.) [Y]>
Disclaimers (as either footers or headings) are added in-line with the message body
whenever possible. However, if the disclaimer is encoded differently than the message
body, and if imposing a single encoding will cause loss of characters, it will be
added as an attachment. The system will always try to use the message body's encoding
for the disclaimer. If that fails, the system can try to edit the message body to use
an encoding that is compatible with the message body as well as the disclaimer. Should
the system try to re-encode the message body in such a case? [N]> y
Return to the main CLI prompt and commit changes to the configuration. You should then see the following settings listed from localeconfig:
Behavior when modifying headers: Use encoding of message body
Behavior for untagged non-ASCII headers: Impose encoding of message body
Behavior for mismatched footer or heading encoding: Try both body and footer or
heading encodings
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