The Relevance Of An Anti Spam Appliance

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Computers )



An anti spam appliance is a device that is used to block spam, also known as electronic junk mail, from being received in your server. When an email message is received, an anti spam appliance first determines whether the message is spam, or whether it contains any viruses. When the filter detects spam, or finds a virus in the message, the anti spam filter blocks it, and deletes it from the system. If the anti spam appliance is not sure whether the email message is legitimate, it will place the message into quarantine. It is up to the recipient to sort through the emails and determine whether to accept the mail or not. If the message is accepted, the sender’s email address is put on a white list, so that the anti spam appliance accepts any future mails coming from that email address. If the message is not accepted, the sender’s email address is placed into a blacklist or block list, so that the anti spam appliance can then block future email messages coming from that certain address.

There are two ways to obtain an anti spam appliance. If you have a small company, you may choose to obtain the services of a vendor who offers anti spam and virus filtering services. Fees for the services will depend on how many users will utilize the service. Deciding to outsource your anti spam appliance is one practical way of protecting all the email messages received in the event of a technical problem. Emails that are not received during the time the server experiences technical problems; the emails can be retrieved at a later time.

If you have a large company with a group of IT professionals employed, it may be more practical to obtain your own anti spam appliance. With this option, you will need to upgrade your subscription after a certain timeframe. An additional fee is charged when product updates become available.

Most anti spam appliances work with most popular email systems: anti spam outlook and antispam exchange are two examples of anti spam appliances.

The ever-changing developments of anti spam appliances will continue to evolve in the future. The purchase of an anti spam appliance is at a high cost, but will eventually decrease as the demand for anti spam appliances increase.


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