Configure a Spam Filter
Email Protection Administrator Guide
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November 2012
The action for a content group you define overrides spam actions for Email Protection
default spam filters. For example, if Email Protection determines that an email has a
medium likelihood of being spam and also contains a keyword that is in your spam content
group, the action defined for your spam content group is applied.
However, if you also define content filtering on the
Content – Content Groups
window
(see Configure a Content Filter, that content filter overrides the keyword filtering you
define on the following
Spam – Content Groups
window. In addition, spam identified by
the
Content – Content Groups
filter is accessible only by Quarantine Managers or higher
level administrators. Users cannot view this spam.
1
Click
Email Protection | Policies
.
2
Select the policy you want to change.
3
Click the
Spam.
4
Click
Content Groups
.
5
Double-click the Content Group you wish to modify.
6
In the
Group Name
field, type the name of your spam content group.
This name should summarize the kind of keywords you want Email Protection to look
for. For example, you might want to identify musical terms, such as
concert
,
music
,
rock
,
jazz
, and so on, as spam. In this case, your group name might be
music
.
7
From the
Action
drop-down menu, select an action to take if an email matches a
keyword:
•
None
– The email is forwarded to the recipient email address.
•
Quarantine the message
– The email is sent to the recipient's domain content
quarantine area.
•
Deny Delivery
– The email is denied delivery.
•
Allow –
The email is sent to the recipient email address.
Note:
The Allow option is useful if you want to override standard Email Protection spam content
filtering for particular keywords.
