Bayesian Pattern Match
This page contains the Bayesian pattern matcher settings. There is an overview of the SPAM Blocking process here.
Pattern Matching
- Pattern Matcher settings
Enable Pattern Matching
Built-in sophisticated statistical pattern matching algorithms can be used to match and block spam. This is a highly accurate mechanism for filtering junk email offering high rates of spam identification, typically around 95% and very low false positive rates (the number of email incorrectly blocked): typically less than 1 in 2,000 email.
On/Off
on
Thresholds
Each email is given a score form 0% (almost certainly legitimate) to 100% (almost certainly SPAM). The triple slider allows you to set the three thresholds used to determine the outcome of the pattern matching:
Below there are settings for subcategories of SPAM that can be used to disable the above actions (or force Marking instead) when an email matches a specific category. This can be useful if your business domain is similar to
a SPAM category: for example if your company is involved with pharmaceuticals then the Pharmacological category may match legitimate emails, and it may be beneficial to disable that particular category.
| Less than the first marker (in the white area) | The email is not matched and will pass through unhindered |
| Greater than the first marker (in the light green area) | The email will have its subject marked but be sent to the original intended recipient(s) |
| Greater than the second (in the blue area) | The email will be blocked and optionally stored in the SPAM store |
| Greater than the third (in the red area) | The email will be deleted and not stored |
1 - 100
Finance
Get rich quick schemes, money making ideas and offers, and investment or stock price information. These subcategories of spam can be optionally turned off - so that although the email was considered spam, those that match this specific category can be allowed to pass through. This is useful if your company is operating in a business domain similar to one of the categories. Turn off any categories that cause incorrect email to be blocked, or are very similar to your business.
Off, Mark, On
On
Finance/Credit and Loans
spam concerning refinancing, credit cards, loans, mortgages, and investments. These subcategories of spam can be optionally turned off - so that although the email was considered spam, those that match this specific category can be allowed to pass through. This is useful if your company is operating in a business domain similar to one of the categories. Turn off any categories that cause incorrect email to be blocked, or are very similar to your business.
Off, Mark, On
On
Business and Marketing
spam offering business cards, company or email address lists. These subcategories of spam can be optionally turned off - so that although the email was considered spam, those that match this specific category can be allowed to pass through. This is useful if your company is operating in a business domain similar to one of the categories. Turn off any categories that cause incorrect email to be blocked, or are very similar to your business.
Off, Mark, On
On
Security and Privacy
spam promoting privacy tools for PCs and Windows, such as hard-disk image removal products. These subcategories of spam can be optionally turned off - so that although the email was considered spam, those that match this specific category can be allowed to pass through. This is useful if your company is operating in a business domain similar to one of the categories. Turn off any categories that cause incorrect email to be blocked, or are very similar to your business.
Off, Mark, On
On
Adult/Dating
spam promoting singles and dating websites. These subcategories of spam can be optionally turned off - so that although the email was considered spam, those that match this specific category can be allowed to pass through. This is useful if your company is operating in a business domain similar to one of the categories. Turn off any categories that cause incorrect email to be blocked, or are very similar to your business.
Off, Mark, On
On
Adult/Pornography
Sexually explicit or pornographic spam emails. These subcategories of spam can be optionally turned off - so that although the email was considered spam, those that match this specific category can be allowed to pass through. This is useful if your company is operating in a business domain similar to one of the categories. Turn off any categories that cause incorrect email to be blocked, or are very similar to your business.
Off, Mark, On
On
Health/Medical
Health and wellness spam email. These subcategories of spam can be optionally turned off - so that although the email was considered spam, those that match this specific category can be allowed to pass through. This is useful if your company is operating in a business domain similar to one of the categories. Turn off any categories that cause incorrect email to be blocked, or are very similar to your business.
Off, Mark, On
On
Health/Pharmacy
spam offering pharmaceutical products such as Viagra and HGH. These subcategories of spam can be optionally turned off - so that although the email was considered spam, those that match this specific category can be allowed to pass through. This is useful if your company is operating in a business domain similar to one of the categories. Turn off any categories that cause incorrect email to be blocked, or are very similar to your business.
Off, Mark, On
On
Health/Beauty
spam concerning self-improvement and beauty treatments. These subcategories of spam can be optionally turned off - so that although the email was considered spam, those that match this specific category can be allowed to pass through. This is useful if your company is operating in a business domain similar to one of the categories. Turn off any categories that cause incorrect email to be blocked, or are very similar to your business.
Off, Mark, On
On
Self Improvement
spam promoting job or recruitment websites, or recruitment agency services. These subcategories of spam can be optionally turned off - so that although the email was considered spam, those that match this specific category can be allowed to pass through. This is useful if your company is operating in a business domain similar to one of the categories. Turn off any categories that cause incorrect email to be blocked, or are very similar to your business.
Off, Mark, On
On
Gambling and Competitions
spam telling you you've won or can enter competitions. These subcategories of spam can be optionally turned off - so that although the email was considered spam, those that match this specific category can be allowed to pass through. This is useful if your company is operating in a business domain similar to one of the categories. Turn off any categories that cause incorrect email to be blocked, or are very similar to your business.
Off, Mark, On
On
Non English
spam in Asian fonts or scripts. These subcategories of spam can be optionally turned off - so that although the email was considered spam, those that match this specific category can be allowed to pass through. This is useful if your company is operating in a business domain similar to one of the categories. Turn off any categories that cause incorrect email to be blocked, or are very similar to your business.
Off, Mark, On
On
Goods and Services
spam offering price reductions, sales or savings on goods and products. These subcategories of spam can be optionally turned off - so that although the email was considered spam, those that match this specific category can be allowed to pass through. This is useful if your company is operating in a business domain similar to one of the categories. Turn off any categories that cause incorrect email to be blocked, or are very similar to your business.
Off, Mark, On
On
Software
spam offering free products or services, or special offers or gifts. These subcategories of spam can be optionally turned off - so that although the email was considered spam, those that match this specific category can be allowed to pass through. This is useful if your company is operating in a business domain similar to one of the categories. Turn off any categories that cause incorrect email to be blocked, or are very similar to your business.
Off, Mark, On
On
Updates
Automatic Update every
Specify the interval between checks for automatic updates
1 - 168 hours
4 hours
Auto retrain pattern matcher on Non-Spam
The pattern matching engine can learn about your email traffic. Enable this control to allow the pattern matching engine to automatically
learn about your email traffic from outbound messages and/or any emails you elect to send from the spam store. The engine is retrained every 250 email messages for efficiency, and is retrained
up to a maximum of 50,000 emails, more than sufficient to learn about your email traffic.
On/Off
on
off