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To provide visibility into
Spamity™ Agent's email message identification
capabilities, including accuracy and scalability,
Bitspan has created several tools to monitor and
report on its message identification facility.
These include the applications, Spamity™ Monitor
and Spamity™ Web Reporter.
Spamity Monitor runs on
a Windows platform and analyzes inbound email
packets received on the SMTP port, which can be
local or remote, for presence of spam by creating
a fingerprint and doing a cross match against its
spam fingerprint definition library. Additionally,
if enabled, Spamity Monitor can report its
findings to a centralized ODBC database where the
data can be visualized using readymade canned
reports - using Bitspan’s Spamity Web Reporter
web-based application. Together, Spamity Monitor
and Spamity Web Reporter allow for fast assessment
of Bitspan’s email identification technologies
with minimal impact (if any) to existing email
delivery environments. All the identification
processes take place within your network.
How it works?
When
the application is first launched, an instance
of Spamity™ Agent is created. The Spamity
Agent then connects to Bitspan's
Definition Server and download all spam fingerprints. Once
the definition downloding ends, the
Spamity Monitor application can listen-in (eavesdrop) on a
local or remote port running
any one of the following services:
- Mail Services (SMTP)
- MTA (Message Transfer Agent)
- SMTP-Relay
- Firewall Services
- Third Party Email application
When it
receives an inbound email, it calls a function of
Spamity™ Agent component and passes the email information
to the Spamity™ Agent component. The Spamity
Agent LOCALLY assesses the spamity
by looking through its indexed spam fingerprint library
and then reports the result
back to the Spamity Monitor application. The match
MUST be 100%. Otherwise it
will not be considered a spam.
The Spamity™ Agent component runs independent from the Spamity
Monitor application, as it constantly receives
spam updates from the Bitspan server.
By itself, Spamity™ Monitor
reports the count and percentage of emails it has
processed and identified as spam, since start up.
This amount of detail may be good enough for some
implementations. However, to get the best type of
reporting, Bitspan recommends you implement Spamity Web
Reporter. Spamity™ Monitor can be configured
to log its findings to a centralized
ODBC-compliant database for creation of more
complex reports using the Spamity™ Web
Reporter. For more information, please
refer to Bitspan’s Spamity™ Web
Reporter
1.0 Guide.
For additional information
on Spamity™ Monitor, please refer to
Spamity Monitor
Deployment Guide
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