Spam Filter

About the Lightspeed Spam Filter

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Spam management is one of the most important lines of defense against viruses and inappropriate content. Email abuse can degrade your network performance and waste the time of both IT staff and users.

The Lightspeed Spam Filter helps you ensure that your email system is being securely and appropriately used, without hindering the ability to work and communicate. You can ensure that messages users want are getting through with end-user spam summaries and customizable allow lists.

Features of the Spam Filter

The Lightspeed Spam Filter provides powerful, easy-to-use features for blocking spam, controlling email viruses, and managing communications:

• More than fourteen proven lines of defense for blocking spam
• Allow and block lists, both global and personal
• Adult subject-line scanning and filtering
• Email content filtering to block inappropriate content and email viruses
• Bayesian statistical analysis to evaluate message content
• Unknown mail servers review for open relays or proxies
• Challenge emails to verify unknown email addresses
• Ability to remove offensive content from spam summary reports
• Customizable database of content categories to be blocked
• Flexible filtering levels: mild, moderate, aggressive, custom
• Ability to supervise personal allow lists and delivery requests
• Ability to block messages based on attachment file size or number
• Ability to block specified extensions on received files

Lightspeed Spam Filter Reports

The Lightspeed Spam Filter gives you access to comprehensive information about emails received, delivered, and blocked across your mail system, so you can adjust Acceptable Use Policies, change allowed usages, review problems and troubleshoot issues, and plan for ongoing needs. You can see a high-level overview of email and messaging usage, and then drill down for detailed information, with reports like:

• All Mail, Clean Mail, and Spam Mail Summaries
• Overblocked Mail
• Underblocked Mail
• Mail Traffic Chart
• Virus Mail
• Spam Mail
• Challenge Emails
• Supervise Spam

With the Spam Filter you can:

• Secure your network against malware, viruses, and spyware.
• Increase user productivity by blocking time-draining spam.
• Offset IT burden by shifting control to end users with daily email summaries.
• Reduce exposure to harmful or offensive content.
• Improve bandwidth by applying message file size limitations.
• Enforce Acceptable Use Policies on email usage without hindering communication