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Anti Spam

The document summarizes the features of an antispam system, including user-oriented quarantine management tools that allow users to manage spam filtering settings and view quarantined items, a user-friendly web interface, flexible user authentication options, powerful administration tools, effective spam and virus management tools using SpamAssassin and Amavisd-new, a scalable design that allows servers to be separated, data security and integrity features, statistics tracking of spam and viruses, and a variety of anti-spam mechanisms like Bayesian analysis, whitelisting, regex filters, and DNSBL, SPF, DKIM, greylisting checks.

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Anti Spam

The document summarizes the features of an antispam system, including user-oriented quarantine management tools that allow users to manage spam filtering settings and view quarantined items, a user-friendly web interface, flexible user authentication options, powerful administration tools, effective spam and virus management tools using SpamAssassin and Amavisd-new, a scalable design that allows servers to be separated, data security and integrity features, statistics tracking of spam and viruses, and a variety of anti-spam mechanisms like Bayesian analysis, whitelisting, regex filters, and DNSBL, SPF, DKIM, greylisting checks.

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Features of Antispam

User-Oriented Quarantine Management : * * * * * Users can manage their own content filtering settings. Users can maintain their own whitelists and blacklists. Users can see a list of their quarantined spam, sorted by score. Users can see a list of their quarantined viruses, sorted by date. Users can view text or HTML contents of quarantined mail in decoded or raw form in a "safe" mail viewer. * Users can rescue quarantined items to have them redelivered, delete them, or confirm them as spam. * Users can report "false negatives" (i.e. spam that gets past the filters). * Optional auto-whitelisting for senders of rescued quarantine items. User-Friendly Web Interface : * * * * Cross-browser support (Internet Explorer, Mozilla, etc.). Graphical toolbars with icons. Online help pages for users and administrators. Safe mail viewer for spam and viruses, including image-blocking.

Flexible User Authentication : * Users can authenticate via an external POP3, IMAP, LDAP, Exchange, or SQL server. * Internal authentication is also supported. * Supports login sessions with or without cookies, transparently and automatically. * Accounts are automatically created for users when they login if necessary. * Accounts can be auto-created as mail arrives for users, if necessary. * Multiple e-mail addresses can be linked to a single account. * Individual settings can be maintained for each e-mail address. Powerful Administration Tools : * Users, Domain Administrators, and a Super-Administrator. * A Super-Administrator account can grant/revoke Administrator privileges. * Administrators can add domain-class users and configure per-domain defaults (e.g. @domain). * Administrators can "impersonate" regular users to help with support issues. * Scheduled e-mail reminders to encourage users to review their quarantine areas. * Scheduled e-mail digests of quarantined items to enable users to manage. their quarantines directly from their mail clients. * Configurable auto-expiry schedule for neglected quarantined items. * Per-domain and system-wide settings can be defined by Administrators. * Virus alias administration functions.

Effective Spam and Virus Management Tools : * Built on SpamAssassin and amavisd-new (v. 2.2.0). * Supports a wide range of virus scanners, and can use multiple scanners for layered protection. * Supports scanning for viruses, spam, banned attachment types, and invalid mail headers. * Confirmed spam and ham is used to automatically train SpamAssassin's Bayes engine. * Confirmed spam can be automatically reported to spam-monitoring networks, e.g. Vipul's Razor, the Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse, Pyzor, and SpamCop. * Supports the use of "spam-trap" accounts to gather and report evidence. * Auto-accept or auto-reject mail larger than a specified size. Scalable Design : * Mail servers, database servers, web servers and content filters can be hosted on separate machines. * Supports arrays of content filtering machines, all controlled from a single interface. * Supports virtual hosting of multiple domains, with per-domain features. * SQL database storage for all e-mail, no more files. Data Security and Integrity : * * * * Unless explicitly discarded, no mail is ever "lost". Mail is stored in pristine form, no amavisd/SA headers. Strong Blowfish/CBC encryption of stored e-mail can be enabled. Privacy settings can be configured to prevent or allow administrators to read users' e-mail.

Statistics Tracking : * * * * * * Tracks viruses, spam, and ham (i.e. "non-spam") for statistical purposes. Tracks bandwidth consumption for viruses, spam and ham. Tracks financial costs associated with bandwidth for each type of item. Filter effectiveness stats. Statistics available in table form and as graphic charts (with JpGraph). New charts and visualizations of the data can be added easily Condensed stats table.

Anti Spam Mechanism * * * * * * * * Ability to block or subject-line tag e-mail against a multitude of spam types. Fully transparent Training Mode for implementation testing. Bayesian Analysis. Automatic Bayesian corpus training. Automatic Whitelisting. Redlist to control what addresses can and can not be added to the Whitelist. Allow spam to bypass certain filters per recipient. RegEx based filters.

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DNSBL (DNS-based Block List), aka RBL. SPF (aka Sender Policy Framework). DKIM (aka DomainKeys Identified Mail). SRS fix-up (aka Sender Rewriting Scheme). Delaying (aka Greylisting). Sender & recipient validation. Multi-level attachment blocking. Honeypot e-mail address trapping. Multiple RFC validation mechanisms. Analysis interface to determine exactly why a message was blocked. Ability to send copies of all spam to specified address.

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