Configuring spam filtering

Spam Filtering

This settings page is only available to admin@example.com.

SmarterMail includes many advanced antispam measures that will help protect your users from unwanted email. The system administrator has probably already set up some default spam options. Domain administrators can further modify these settings as well as set up rules forContent Filtering and Domain Auto-cleaning.

To view the spam filtering settings for your domain, click the settings icon. First expand Domain Settings, then expand the Filtering section and click Spam Filtering in the navigation pane. The spam filtering settings will load in the content pane and the following tabs will be available:

Options

Use this tab to set the following spam filtering options for the domain:

  • Use default spam settings – Choose this option to accept the default spam options provided by your system administrator. The settings will be displayed for your reference.
  • Override spam settings for this domain – Select this option to customize the way spam is handled. Spam check weights and actions will become overridable by end users. More information about the types of actions allowed can be found below.

Actions

When you override the spam options set by your system administrator, you can choose the actions that are taken when email comes in that has a low, medium, or high probability of being spam. For each spam level, choose the action you wish to have taken. If you choose to add text to the subject line of messages, type the text in the box below the action drop down.

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