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Policy Patrol 3.0 - Spam Filter

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Policy Patrol - Spam Filter

Policy Patrol - Spam Filter

Heinz Tschabitscher

The Bottom Line

Policy Patrol protects against legal threats from email by adding flexible disclaimers, provides flexible filtering and tames both spam and viruses.
Pros
  • Policy Patrol offers flexible disclaimers
  • Versatile scoring content filters sort and Bayesian analysis eliminates spam
  • Policy Patrol is easy to use and administer
Cons
  • Policy Patrol can be a bit cumbersome with servers other than Exchange

Description

  • Policy Patrol adds global and user or group based disclaimers to emails automatically.
  • Supports HTML-formatted disclaimers and flexible notes formatting.
  • Creates flexible disclaimers by merging templates with fields from Active Directory or the email.
  • Policy Patrol offers flexible scoring keyword filters with many examples included.
  • Virus scanning and a spam filter using Bayesian statistics protect your network.
  • To save bandwidth, Policy Patrol can automatically compress attachments and control throttling.
  • The useful filtering actions include auto-replies, running external programs and much more.
  • Policy Patrol lets you customize Exchange NDRs.
  • Policy Patrol supports Windows 2000/3/XP.

Guide Review - Policy Patrol 3.0 - Spam Filter

Every email leaves a permanent record and can come back to haunt you. To protect your company against possible legal threats, adding disclaimers automatically is advisable. Policy Patrol can do that flexibly (even using Active Directory fields), but it can do a lot more.

Policy Patrol is a well rounded content filtering solution and comes with many useful examples to help you get started. A great number of useful filter actions let you manage your incoming and outgoing mail with Policy Patrol.

Since outgoing emails are not the only way that email can be harmful, nifty spam filtering based on Bayesian statistics cans junk email precisely, and Policy Patrol scans for viruses and malicious code, too. When Policy Patrol senses a DoS attack or maybe a worm spreading from your network, it diligently alerts you.

To save bandwidth, Policy Patrol can automatically compress all attachments at the server level. Policy Patrol works with any SMTP server on Windows 2000/XP, but it's best suited for Exchange and Notes/Domino.

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