Email Protection Administrator Guide
Configure a Spam Filter
November 2012
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Complete the following fields:
Configure a Spam Filter
Email Protection spam filtering uses a large number of filtering processes, as well as
sophisticated statistical classification techniques, as part of its Stacked Classification
Framework® to determine if email is spam. Based on this analysis, Email Protection give
each email a score.
There are three scores are used to determine the likelihood of spam and what actions
should be taken. Those scores are:
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Medium
likelihood if default settings are used. This email is normally quarantined for
review.
Field
Description
To the sender when
a message is … due
to a virus infection
Select one or more conditions that will cause Email Protection to send a
notification email to the sender.
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Quarantined
– The infected email was quarantined.
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Denied delivery
– The infected email was denied delivery.
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Stripped
– The infected attachment was stripped and the email sent
to the recipient.
To the recipient
when a message is
… due to a virus
infection
Select one or more conditions that will cause Email Protection to send a
notification email to the recipient.
•
Quarantined
– The infected email was quarantined.
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Denied delivery
– The infected email was denied delivery.
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Stripped
– The infected attachment was stripped and the email sent
to the recipient.