How does it work? Our Spam Filter solution works to minimize the damage spam does to your business. The spam filter system scans every email sent to your account verifying the legitimacy of the email and determining the likelihood of the email containing spam. The system is deployed and administered on the mail server and managed by us ensuring there is no administrative overhead for your organization. The anti spam application works to identify spam emails before they reach your email box. Emails are scanned using our internal spam detection and filtering network and SpamAssassin™ a server based mail filtering system. Furthermore, an additional layer of Spam protection can be utilized from enabling the custom spam filters available from your control panel. This multi-pronged approach ensures maximum efficiency in reducing spam to your email box and can reduce spam levels by up-to 98%. Depending on your specific requirements the spam filter can manage email identified as spam in one of two ways:
Automatic Tagging and Filtering The filtering application can be set to automatically tag suspected spam emails, once tagged the email will be delivered to the end user where the Email Programme (such as Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express) will identify the tag and move the email to your junk folder. In this way emails are never lost but are simply relocated to the users junk folder. The user is then able to browse through the folder on a daily or weekly basis retrieving any emails that maybe of interest or use.
The spam-identification tactics used include:
SpamAssassin is a mature, widely-deployed open source project that serves as a mail filter to identify Spam. SpamAssassin uses a variety of mechanisms including header and text analysis, Bayesian filtering, DNS blocklists, and collaborative filtering databases. SpamAssassin runs on a server, and filters spam before it reaches your mailbox. |
