ZyXEL Communications 100 Series, 200 Series Anti-Spam, 33.1 Overview, 33.1.2What You Need to Know About Anti-Spam, 33.1.1What You Can Do in the Anti-SpamScreens

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Anti-Spam

33.1 Overview

The anti-spam feature can mark or discard spam (unsolicited commercial or junk e-mail). Use the white list to identify legitimate e-mail. Use the black list to identify spam e-mail. The ZyWALL can also check e-mail against a DNS black list (DNSBL) of IP addresses of servers that are suspected of being used by spammers.

33.1.1What You Can Do in the Anti-Spam Screens

•Use the General screens (Section 33.3 on page 561) to turn anti-spam on or off and manage anti-spam policies.

•Use the Black/White List screens (Section 33.4 on page 564) to set up a black list to identify spam and a white list to identify legitimate e-mail.

•Use the DNSBL screens (Section 33.6 on page 568) to have the ZyWALL check e-mail against DNS Black Lists.

•Use the Status screen (Section 33.6 on page 568) to see how many mail sessions the ZyWALL is currently checking and DNSBL statistics.

33.1.2What You Need to Know About Anti-Spam

White list

Configure white list entries to identify legitimate e-mail. The white list entries have the ZyWALL classify any e-mail that is from a specified sender or uses a specified header field and header value as being legitimate (see E-mail Headers on page 560 for more on mail headers). The anti-spam feature checks an e-mail against the white list entries before doing any other anti-spam checking. If the e-mail matches a white list entry, the ZyWALL classifies the e-mail as legitimate and does not perform any more anti-spam checking on that individual e-mail. A properly configured white list helps keep important e-mail from being incorrectly classified as spam. The white list can also increases the ZyWALL’s anti-spam speed and efficiency by not having the ZyWALL perform the full anti-spam checking process on legitimate e-mail.

Black List

Configure black list entries to identify spam. The black list entries have the ZyWALL classify any e-mail that is from or forwarded by a specified IP address or uses a specified header field and header value as being spam. If an e-mail does not match any of the white list entries, the ZyWALL checks it against the black list entries. The ZyWALL classifies an e-mail that

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