MessageLabs Hosted Email AntiSpam Filter Service
MessageLabs Hosted Email AntiSpam filter prevents spam from reaching your network. The multi-layered,
internet-level spam filter has a service level for 99% spam capture, removing threats, improving your
team’s productivity, and reducing the volume of mail reaching your organisation, so you can focus on running
your business.
Our Email Anti-Spam filter is compatible with any SMTP-compliant email messaging platform including:
Exchange Server , GroupWise, Lotus Notes-Domino, providing a cost effective spam filtering solution.
Our solution is scalable to fit the needs of any size business and you can enhance your email security by
adding our
Email Anti-Virus filter.
Why use MessageLabs Hosted Email AntiSpam filter?
The Email Anti-Spam filter is a managed service. It requires no hardware purchases, no installation, no
ongoing upgrades and no maintenance. MessageLabs hosted Email Anti-Spam filter can be deployed in minutes.
| Challenge |
Hosted Anti-Spam |
Benefit |
| Prevent spam from reaching users’ in-boxes |
Has a service level to filter out 99% of spam |
Users don’t waste time filtering through junk messages |
| Ensure legitimate business email is not blocked |
Has a service level for 0.0003% false positive rate |
Users can be sure they are receiving business email |
| Minimise wasted bandwidth |
Filters spam at the internet level, before it reaches your network |
Removes spam before it reaches your network, so bandwidth is not wasted |
| Ensure continuous spam protection is in place |
Managed service which is always on and always up to date |
Continuous spam protection is in place – no more system updates |
As with all MessageLabs products, our hosted Email Anti-Spam filter includes
24x7x365 support.
Anti-Spam Service- How it works:
MessageLabs Email Anti-Spam service employs a unique suite of multi-layered spam filtering technologies to
deliver dramatic cuts in the amount of spam reaching your network. Innovative Traffic Management and
Connection Management capabilities identify unwanted email from known sources, slow it down and reject it.
Our proprietary Skeptic™ technology, integrating heuristics rules, fuzzy fingerprinting and other
techniques, then pinpoints spam from new and unknown sources, with near-perfect accuracy. Best-of-breed
commercial spam filtering scanners provide additional layers of effective security.

- All incoming emails are directed through the MessageLabs platform, hosted in secure data centers worldwide
- Each email is scanned for spam from known and unknown sources using traffic management, Skeptic™ technology, and commercial anti-spam filters
- Any email identified as spam is redirected, with multiple spam block and re-routing options available
- Quarantined email and lists of approved and blocked senders are managed by administrators and/or end-users
- Reports summarizing actions taken by the spam filter service can be generated easily
Getting started
Implementing our Email Anti-Spam Filter is a fast and easy process; you can be up and running within
minutes. You simply pay a fixed monthly cost based on the number of users connected and the service is
scalable, so new employees can be added easily as your business grows.
Our Email Anti-Spam filter combined with our
Email Anti-Virus filter service increases email security. Other service options include Email Image Control, Email Content
Control and Email Encryption which can be easily added on to the service, providing greater levels of
protection to meet your organisation’s email security needs.
Take advantage of our free trial today.