| Content Analysis Mailshell 3.0 SpamContent) |
Examines the content of messages in detail, including address fields, subject, headers, SMTP envelope content, email format, design and layout, image layout, hyperlinks, contact information, language and origin. |
| Reputation Checking (using Mailshell Spam Detection Network & Bayesian analysis) |
Sender reputations are determined using comprehensive 'real-time' databases of IP addresses, domains and email addresses of known spammers. Bayesian analysis is used to combat attempts to hide sender identity. |
| Bulk Mail Detection (Mailshell SpamBulk) |
Identifies if a message or similar messages were sent in bulk by creating 'fingerprints' based on message elements that are the hardest for spammers to fake or change. |
| Phishing Protection (Mailshell SpamTricks) |
Identifies special formatting used to evade spam filters and for phishing attacks and economical bulk mailings (including image-only messages, HTML obfuscation and manipulation using relays). Analysis of the message header includes time stamps and the SMTP envelope. |
| SMTP Validity Checking |
Checks for malformed email (usually either spam or designed to attack mail server/client vulnerabilities). |
| Grey Listing |
Mail from unknown senders may be temporarily rejected. Genuine email servers (as opposed to zombies or botnets) usually resend after a short delay - if a 2nd attempt is made, the sender is automatically added to the list of known senders. |
| Remote Blackhole List (RBL) |
Email Security has the option to utilize RBL services (maintained databases of IP addresses that are acting as open mail relays for bulk spamming). |
| Sender Domain Spoofi ng |
Rejects any incoming email that falsely uses an internal domain in the 'from' address. |
| User-confi gurable Spam Treatment Controls |
Users have the option to add email addresses to their own blacklists or whitelists and set automatic rules for changing subjects, replacing content or sending to a quarantine mailbox. Partial domains can also be matched and included. |
| Per User Quarantine |
Allows each email address to have a separate quarantine as opposed to a single mailbox. Users receive a daily report of "spam-trapped" email which they can then use to view and release email. |