1. How do I stop attachment spam?
2. How do I block MP3 spam?
3. How do I stop PDF spam?
4. How do I ensure that legitimate email gets through?
The answer to these questions may surprise you: most customers are successful with MailMarshal by simply installing it and walking away. It is the hard work of our TRACE team that enables customers to use MailMarshal in this way.
The Marshal TRACE team lives, eats and breathes spam detection. They work tirelessly to ensure that out of the box MailMarshal is 99.5% effective against spam while maintaining an extremely low false positive rate of .001%. They analyze millions of messages each week and adjust the SpamCensor to account for the latest spam mutations. They also release zero-day updates which protect against emerging threats.
You can follow the activities of the TRACE team on their site. Not only do they have some informative graphs of various spam trends, they also blog about the state of unwanted email and publish whitepapers on related topics.
Perhaps you have been a MailMarshal customer for a long time and you are finding that the spam detection is not quite as good as it used to be. The first thing to do is make sure you are running the latest version. TRACE works hard to make most of its new releases backward compatible but there are technologies that simply cannot be retrofitted into older versions.
Once you have upgraded, the best way to ensure that you are taking advantage of the TRACE team's efforts is to review our Anti-Spam Basics whitepaper. In this whitepaper are the five essential rules that TRACE recommends all MailMarshal customers configure and enable. Keep in mind that the techniques for detecting unwanted email change over time, so it is best to plan on upgrading at least annually and re-reviewing this whitepaper.
So there you have it. Stopping unwanted email with MailMarshal is as simple as installing it, walking away and allowing a fraction of time each year for a review.
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