Spam Detection

PureMessage identifies spam by analyzing messages according to a set of anti-spam rules. Each rule has a test and a corresponding "weight". For each rule that matches the message, the weight is added to the message's total spam score. After all rules are applied, the spam score is converted to a percentage. The PureMessage policy performs actions (such as quarantining a message) based on the percentage that expresses the message's total spam score.

The PureMessage applications and configuration files used to configure spam detection from the command line are:

Related concepts
Policy Overview
Related information
pmx-spam
spam.conf
adaptive.conf
bayes.conf
destination.conf
heuristic.conf
sender.conf
net.conf
dnsbl.conf
site.conf
re.rules
compiler.conf
sxl.conf