Primary Gateway

Before you complete these steps, import and verify your domains on the Configuration page as described in User Added Domains

To use Secure Email Threat Defense as a primary gateway, you need to set up your mail host to send traffic to Secure Email Threat Defense. This involves changing your DNS MX record. The steps will vary depending on your provider.

Configure Incoming Message Traffic

  1. To allow Secure Email Threat Defense to receive incoming email on behalf of your domain, update your DNS MX record to point to your Secure Email Threat Defense environment. The destination depends on where your Secure Email Threat Defense instance is hosted.

Table 1. DNS MX Record Settings by Region

Environment DNS Record
North America mx.us.etd.cisco.com
Europe mx.eu.etd.cisco.com
India mx.in.etd.cisco.com
Australia mx.au.etd.cisco.com
United Arab Emirates mx.ae.etd.cisco.com
Beta mx.beta.etd.cisco.com
Government mx.usgov.etd.cisco
  1. Configure your domain to enable Secure Email Threat Defense to deliver incoming email to your mailboxes. Configure your mail server to accept messages from the IP addresses listed in the table below. The IP addresses differ depending on your region. You can retrieve the an updated list of IPs using the corresponding host name.

    Example: dig host.<region>.etd.cisco.com retrieves the corresponding IPs for the region.

Table 2. Regional Host Names and IPs

Region/Environment Host Name IPs
North America host.us.etd.cisco.com

3.41.135.128

3.41.135.129

3.41.135.130

3.41.135.131

3.41.135.132

3.41.135.133

3.41.135.134

3.41.135.135

3.41.135.136

3.41.135.137

3.41.135.138

3.41.135.140

3.41.135.142

3.41.135.143

3.41.135.148

3.41.135.151

Europe host.eu.etd.cisco.com

18.96.45.104

18.96.45.100

18.96.45.102

18.96.45.96

18.96.45.99

18.96.45.103

18.96.45.97

18.96.45.107

18.96.45.98

18.96.45.101

18.96.45.106

18.96.45.105

India host.in.etd.cisco.com

18.96.227.160

18.96.227.161

18.96.227.162

18.96.227.163

18.96.227.164

18.96.227.165

18.96.227.166

18.96.227.167

18.96.227.168

18.96.227.169

18.96.227.170

18.96.227.171

Australia host.au.etd.cisco.com

3.44.64.89

3.44.64.90

3.44.64.83

3.44.64.80

3.44.64.82

3.44.64.84

3.44.64.85

3.44.64.88

3.44.64.86

3.44.64.87

3.44.64.91

3.44.64.81

United Arab Emirates host.ae.etd.cisco.com

18.96.96.48

18.96.96.49

18.96.96.50

18.96.96.51

18.96.96.52

18.96.96.53

18.96.96.54

18.96.96.55

18.96.96.56

18.96.96.57

18.96.96.58

18.96.96.59

Beta host.beta.etd.cisco.com

3.41.135.144

3.41.135.147

3.41.135.146

3.41.135.150

3.41.135.149

3.41.135.145

3.41.135.139

3.41.135.141

Government host.usgov.etd.cisco

195.146.171.50

195.146.171.51

195.146.171.100

195.146.171.101

195.146.171.150

195.146.171.151

  1. In Secure Email Threat Defense, go to Configuration > Analysis configuration > Domains > Imported Domains and click Update List. Verify that the expected domains are imported and can accept traffic.