Killing the Corporate Hydra: Spam E-Mail

review. E-mail that is definitely spam will stay on the
server to be archived and/or deleted. As a result,
system administrators have more flexibility without
having to write any rules.

• Default settings: SpamKiller for Exchange Small
Business ships with best practice settings. This
includes hundreds of rules and an associated
scoring system, allowing for 95 percent accuracy
“out of the box.” The system can be up and running
in one hour; administrators needn’t write rules,
create dictionaries, or define routing parameters.
Some systems take several weeks just to set up the
rules and the scoring parameters.

• Modify the header: The system administrator can
modify the header for e-mail scored as spam; for
example appending a prefix to the subject line with
text such as “****SPAM****.” Alternatively the
header of the e-mail message can be appended
with its SpamKiller numeric score. Appending a
prefix to the subject line makes it easy for end users
to identify e-mail scored as spam, and for the
system administrator to avoid writing custom rules.

• Easy rules editing: The user interface for SpamKiller
for Microsoft Exchange Small Business makes it easy
and convenient for the system administrator to view,
edit, and create rules at the code level to fine-tune
the product for specific needs.

• Show which rules have been triggered per
e-mail: The administrator can activate an option
that creates a report showing which rules that have
been triggered on an e-mail as well as the overall
spam score. This report is attached to the e-mail
and is accessed via Microsoft Outlook. The
administrator can use this report see why e-mails
are being flagged as spam, or not being flagged.
The administrator can then decide if individual
rules need to be modified or if a new rule should to
be created.

• New rules added by open-source contributors:
SpamAssassin ships with hundreds of optimized
rules and techniques contributed by members of
the global open-source community. New rules are
first submitted by the open-source community and
are then tested and optimized by McAfee, to be
brought into McAfee’s SpamKiller product family.
The result is an excellent product enhanced by the
constant addition of cutting-edge anti-spam
techniques, creating a highly effective, lowmaintenance
implementation.

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