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   Hosting Country

Detect geographic location of URLs

Enable geolocation detection of URLs. This identifies the likely geographic location of contained URLs and can thereby be used to weight, block or delete email with links to websites in specific countries. Use this to weight block or delete email from countries from which it is unlikely you receive legitimate email

Example interface:

Options:On/Off

Default:on

Mismatched locations

If a URL contained in an email mismatched the email sending IP location you can choose to mark, weight, block or delete the email

Example interface:

Options:
(More Info)Off, Weight, Mark, Block, Delete

Default:Weight

Resolve failure

If a URL host contained in an email fails to resolve to an IP address due to invalid or expired DNS entries you can choose to mark, weight, block or delete the email

Example interface:

Options:
(More Info)Off, Weight, Mark, Block, Delete

Default:Weight

Geolocation

Click the countries on the map to weight email originating from the selected country. Click again to block, and once more to delete. Click a final time to clear the setting for the specified country.

Example interface:

   Page Content

Download URLs to check content

Use this setting to select whether to download content from URLs contained in email to check the web page content for spam

Example interface:

Default:Off

Check content phrases in downloaded pages

Use this setting to select whether to check all your custom content phrases in downloaded content from URLs contained in email to check

Example interface:

Default:On

Download failure

If a URL contained in an email fails to download you can choose to mark, weight, block or delete the email

Example interface:

Options:
(More Info)Off, Weight, Mark, Block, Delete

Default:Weight

Memory cache size

Use this setting to select how much content to cache in memory when downloading URLs.

Example interface:

Default:16 MB

Disk cache expiry

Downloaded URL content is saved to disk to prevent repeated download. Use this setting to control how much content is stored.

Example interface:

Default:7 days

Exclude Hosts/Domains

You may not wish to block some domains or hosts regardless of the country in which they are based. For example, you should not block Hexamail www.hexamail.com

Example interface:

Default:*.hexamail.com,*.bbc.co.uk,*.google.com,*.microsoft.com,*.nyt.com,*.lemonde.fr,*.opera.com,*.firefox.com,*.messagelabs.com,*.postini.com,*.ebay.fr,*.ebay.co.uk,*.ebay.com,*.amazon.com,*.amazon.co.uk,*.msn.com,finance.yahoo.com,*.gmail.com,*.homebase.no,*.screwfix.com,*.tooled-up.com,*.facebook.com,*.myspace.com,*.googlemail.com,*.snapfish.com,*.photobox.com,*.fuji.co.uk,*.fuji.com,*.sony.com,*.webbuyersguide.com,*.welt.de,*.ittoolbox.com,*.tesco.com,*.zeit.de,*.zeitabo.de,*.maplin.co.uk,*.friendster.com,*.egg.com,www.fool.co.uk,*.nwolb.com,*.oneaccount.com,*.apple.com,*.youtube.com,*.spamhaus.org,*.dmoz.org,*.gov,*.gov.uk,*.gov.fr,*.gov.de