PureMessage offers pre-defined reports that provide graphical and tabular representations of
key performance statistics.
Note: The contents of the PureMessage graphical user interface (GUI) are determined by
the global administrator. Depending on what access rights the global administrator has granted,
certain reports, or the entire Reports tab, may not be visible.
Report Types
The names of all available PureMessage reports are displayed on the sidebar of the
Reports tab. The following reports may be available:
Mail Trends
- Message Categories: Shows the number of messages detected as blocked, spam, virus,
delivered, or other (neither virus nor spam). If PureMessage determines that a message contains spam and also
contains a virus, the message counts toward the virus total only. By default, a message is
marked as being spam if its spam probability score is 50% or greater.
- Message Categories per Group: Shows the number of messages (per group) detected as
blocked, spam, virus, delivered, or other (neither virus nor spam).
- Top Virus Types: Shows the virus types (categorized by virus ID) found in messages.
For details on recent viruses by ID, see the "Latest virus identities" page on the
Sophos website.
- Top Virus Types: Shows the virus types (categorized by virus ID) found in messages.
For details on recent viruses by ID, see the Latest virus identities page on
the Sophos website.
- IP Blocked Messages: Shows the number of messages blocked and not blocked at the
policy level on the basis of IP address.
- Rejected MTA Connections: Shows the number of connections rejected due to MTA-level
IP blocking.
- Policy Mark Hits: Shows a count of keys in the message log. If log-marking actions
have been added to specific policy rules, this report can be used to monitor the number of
times those rules are triggered.
Relays
- Top Relays: Shows the top relays by number of messages.
- Top Spam Relays: Shows the top spam relays by number of detected spam messages.
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Top Virus Relays: Shows the virus types (categorized by virus ID) found in messages. For
details on recent viruses by ID, see the Latest virus identities page on
the Sophos website.
- Top Other Relays: Shows the top spam relays by number of other messages (those that
are classified as neither spam nor virus). This report can help you fine-tune your spam
filtering performance by highlighting other relays (e.g. partners) you may want to add to your
approved hosts.
Senders/Recipients
- Top Spam Senders: Shows the top spam senders by number of detected spam messages.
- Top Virus Senders: Shows the top virus senders by number of detected virus messages.
- Top Spam Recipients: Shows the top spam recipients by number of detected spam
messages. This report can help you understand which users receive large volumes of spam,
allowing you to create custom policy rules to more aggressively filter spam for a group of
users or a specific individual.