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9.4 Spam Filter Properties
The integrated Securepoint anti spam solution filters unrequested e-mails (spam). Therefore
it uses a combination of different methods to detect as much undesired e-mails as possible.
The Securepoint spam filter analyzes every e-mail on the basis of different criteria and classi-
fies it as spam depending of the weighting. Assessment criteria are for example: obviously
invalid sender address, known spam text passages, HTML content, future dated sender data
and so on.
9.4.1 General
Decide which spam filter mechanism you want to use.
The automatic filter uses a spam filter module of the company Commtouch. The company
services a consistently updated spam database. The incoming e-mails are checked against
this database.
The Bayes filter checks on the basis of classified/evaluated words, if an e-mail is spam or
ham (desired mail).
In order that the filter works properly, it must be trained by the spam administrator. The ad-
ministrator has to resort the misclassified mail into spam and ham. Thereby the filter learns
which words are typical for a spam e-mail.
