Dealing with Spam, how DecaTech can help
January 7, 2009 – 8:12 amWe’ve been contacted many times by DecaTech clients over the years on how to deal with the ever growing battle with SPAM. The short answer is that it is nearly impossible to filter out all SPAM and still receive your legitimate email at the same time. It’s a never ending battle with diminishing returns.
However, there are some things that you can do, that can at least reduce the incoming SPAM to a tolerable level.
Part of the solution depends on what you use for your email client. We find that Outlook’s built-in spam filter works pretty well as a first line of defense. You also have SPAM protection from DecaTech on all of your email accounts with us.
Here’s what a “marked” SPAM message will look like from DecaTech:
The email being marked as SPAM by DecaTech’s server will look like this on the Subject Line:
*****SPAM***** (12.0) The only formula for men that works
The first part is to uniquely identify it as spam.
The second part in parenthesis is the score of the SPAM – the higher it is, the more spam identifier features have been detected in the email
The third part is the regular subject of the email.
Currently, DecaTech’s servers are set at 6.2 as the SPAM value cut-off. If the score is higher than 6.2, it will be identified as SPAM. The
If you are comfortable with what you are seeing, you can request us to have the SPAM messages automatically deleted by the server so you will never see them. However, if you think that some SPAM identified messages are false positives, than you may not want to do this, as you’ll never receive that email. The choice is yours.
Just to be clear, the DecaTech server does not delete any of the SPAM it identifies by default, unless you ask us to have it do it.
There are filters in Outlook and DecaTech Webmail that you can setup by referring to their documentation so that they are automatically filtered out of your main Inbox as well.
Lastly, We recommend having your personal email go thru either a separate domain or thru one of the many free email services out there – Gmail is our favorite. Separation of business vs personal email can also help greatly in the battle with SPAM.