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Why should you or your employees have to waste valuable paid time wading
through unsolicited e-mails that may contain harmful viruses & rude or
even obscene content. The same Postini Sate-of-the-Art e-mail filtering
service that LocalTel & NWInternet uses for thousands of internet
customers is now available to customers who have their own domain and
mail-server. These filters are 98% effective in discovering & stopping
hidden viruses and annoying spam.
Each individual e-mail user has total
control of their filter. Each individual can choose to how aggressive
the filter is in four different categories.
The categories are:
1. Sexually Explicit
2. Get Rich Quick
3. Special Offers
4. Racially Insensitive
The filter looks through your e-mails for key words that would
categorize your e-mail as falling into one of these categories. It also
looks for patterns of e-mails, how many are being sent at one time, and
known spammers.
The filter also has the ability to block any specific e-mails from
senders who may be harassing you or allow e-mail from individuals, organizations or companies
of which
you would like to receive their spams from. You can also turn the filter on or off
completely if so desired.
For Spam: The spam filter looks
for patterns that may indicate the e-mail is spam. If the e-mail meets
the "SPAM" criteria the filter will capture and hold it in the filter
server. Each time a e-mail is captured in the filter a
e-mail will be sent to you saying that spam was captured. You can then click on the link
included in the e-mail, look at it in the filter on our server,
and then choose to download it to your mail-server, or delete it
completely. If you ignore your filtered e-mail they will go away after
7days. If you choose to send it on to your mail-server, the filter will
give you the option to enable e-mails from this source to be delivered
unfiltered in the future.
For Viruses: Every e-mail is
scanned for potential viruses, if a potential virus is suspected it will
capture and quarantine that e-mail in the filter on our server. Then the
filter will notify you by e-mail that there
is a suspect e-mail in the filter. You can click on the included link and view
the e-mails that have been quarantined in the virus filter without
downloading it to your system. You then have the choice to download them
or not, thus protecting your system from possible infection. If you
ignore quarantined e-mail, they will go away after 7
days.
False Positives: Occasionally (less
the 1%) an e-mail is captured by the filters that does not meet the spam
or virus criteria. That is why they are not automatically deleted
without notifying you. If your filter mistakenly captures one of those
e-mails all you have to do is have them delivered on to you. |