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MailControl® Spam

Block junk, improve productivity with MailControl Spam

MailControl Spam from BlackSpider Technologies is a fully managed service designed to provide companies with the highest level of protection at a cost effective price. No single approach to spam detection is a silver bullet; only by combining the best spam detection techniques, with a world-class infrastructure and industry expertise can you deliver an effective solution against the growing menace of spam.

The strength of MailControl spam lies in is its ability to combine the power of lexical analysis, real-time black lists, Bayesian probability, spam traps (honey-pots), collaborative spam databases, trend analysis, customer-controlled white and black lists, and collaborative hashing techniques into an adaptive filtering engine. MailControl Spam provides the highest levels of spam detection and almost eliminates false positives.

This approach combined with the ability to set spam thresholds on a per-user or per-domain basis ensures that MailControl Spam is the most effective and usable technology on the market today.

How does MailControl Spam Work?

Spam filtering presents a number of complex challenges due to the dynamic nature of junk email. An effective spam filter must block the maximum unwanted email, with minimal 'false positives' (valid email, wrongly identified as spam).

MailControl Spam solves these problems by using an 'Adaptive Spam Filtering' engine which effectively learns what an organisation considers to be spam and adapts its filters accordingly.

This adaptive approach combined with the ability to set spam thresholds on a domain and per-user basis, ensure that MailControl Spam is the most effective spam filtering technology on the market today.

The whole scanning process takes just a few seconds. Once each message has been analysed by the different tests, the message receives an overall 'spam score'. The score is then compared against the spam threshold defined by the customer; mail scoring below the configured threshold is delivered as normal, whilst mail scoring above is quarantined as spam.

The MailControl Spam service works by processing email through a number of filters, which include:

Black and White Lists: These are configurable lists of email addresses (or domains) that organisations explicitly block or allow through the service. The lists can be maintained at a domain level or for a specific user.

Adaptive Spam Engine: The adaptive spam engine is the heart of MailControl Spam. It uses a combination of techniques to analyse each email message and assign the message a 'spam score'. This score is used to determine the likelihood of the message being spam.