Features  Multi-platform support  Multi-server support  Customized actions  Intrusion Detection    Sophisticated message search  Challenge/Response  Spam Simulator  SPF Components  Rules Engine  Remote Admin Console Reports  Usage Report  Individual Reports  Statistical Report  Chronological Report Administration  Rules Customization  One-Click Email Restoration  Message Viewer  Auto Archive  Live Monitoring Upgrades  Live update     Multi-Platform Support ITA Secure Messaging runs on many major platforms including: Windows NT/Win2k/XP/2003 Linux Solaris HP-UX AIX Mac Others top Multi-Server Support ITA Secure Messaging version of ITA Secure Messaging works with any SMTP compliant email server - it works as an SMTP proxy and intercepts messages before your email server receives it. This proxy technology allow ITA Secure Messaging to work with any SMTP based email system, including but not limited to: MS Exchange Lotus Notes/Domino Sendmail QMail SunONE Netscape Apache James and most other SMTP servers top Customized Action Every email processed is categorized into three types: Good Possible Spam Spam You can take multiple actions on an email message based on its category. These action include: No action - default for good emails Change subject - default for possible spam Quarantine - default for spam Change subject and forward Quarantine and forward In addition to these actions, quarantine messages can also be configured for challenge/response. top Intrusion Detection Find out who and why is someone connecting to your email server without sending any emails. Spammers are always looking for email servers out on the Internet that can be exploited to send spam. They look for: Open relay Weak user id/password that can be guessed Server specific bugs/features that can be exploited Since it is relatively easier to trace the origin of an email, these people never send an email but connect to your server to explore its vulnerabilities. The intrusion detection system provides you a log of every client that connects to your server but does not send any email. By monitoring these logs you can stop a malicious user from using your server for unwanted activities. For more information please read a White Paper on our web site related to this feature. top Message Search Easily search quarantine messages based on keywords or score. top Challenge/Response You can optionally send every message that is quarantined back to the sender and confirm its validity. If configured, all messages that are quarantined will stay quarantined unless the sender acknowledges it. Once an acknowledgement is received, that message will automatically be restored. This feature is turned off by default. However, you have a choice of turning it on for Spam Messages. This way you will never delete a good message. top Spam Simulator An easy to use built-in Spam Simulator tool allows you to send spam messages to the rules engine. This simulator will return you the final score, its email category and performance metrics of the parsing. This tools can be used to fine tune the filtration rules on ITA Secure Messaging. top SPF Prevent email forgery by looking up SPF record. A built-in SPF wizard allows you to build your SPF record. Click here for further details. top Web based administration ITA Secure Messaging allows an easy to use Web Based tool for remote managing, monitoring, and reporting. This Admin Console allows easy access to ITA Secure Messaging Rule Engine and empowers administrators to customize rules based on your company policy. Some of the features of Admin Consoles are as follows: Web Based for easy access to server using HTTP Ability to customize ITA Secure Messaging by adding, removing, or modifying rules Real-time administrative and management graphical reports View and restore messages Check server status and usage statistics top Usage Report A real-time graphical pie chart report providing usage statistics. This graph shows overall number of emails received categorized into normal, spam, and possible spam emails processed by the ITA Secure Messaging Server. top Individual Report Every day users within your organization get a report for quarantined messages via email, allowing them to view and restore quarantined messages right from their email client. top Statistical Report Various real-time administrative and executive summary reports such as: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly spam emails received bar graph reports Top 20 Spam Recipients in the organization Top 50 Spammers sending spam to your server by IP addresses Various Administrative reports for analyzing spam rules based on subject, body, headers etc. Click here to see sample reports top Chronological Report Report provides hourly statistics of mails received and processed by the server. An excellent way to see the workload of the server at any time of the day, also very useful in keeping a tab in time of email inflow during Spam and email borne virus attacks. Click here to see sample reports top Rules Customization Admin console web based interface makes it very easy for an administrator to customize rules for eliminating spasm based on your own company policy. You can add, delete, modify rules as you go along or use the default rules setup during installation that is suitable for most organizations. You can block or allow emails based on domain, ips, or keywords found anywhere in the email easily. Keywords can be specified using common spelling or by using power regular expressions that make it difficult for spammers to fool spam filter by deliberate misspellings or padding of words using special characters in between a word. This allows you to customize ITA Secure Messaging suitable for your own needs. top Message Restore Nothing could be easier then restoring and sending an email to the end user. Single click of a mouse resends the blocked email to the user as if it originated from the sender. Message content searching capability provides an easy way to easily locate the email you want. In time of need when a message needs to be restored this is as convenient as it gets for an administrator and saves time and hassle. top Message viewer Admin console provides a very easy way to look at the spam mails blocked by ITA Secure Messaging. A single click of a mouse allows you to either look at the raw email data for analysis as it arrived without html browser processing or open up in a mail client such as MS Outlook as an end user would see it on their desktops. You can also download and save the email to a specified location. Clicking on the reason option in message viewer provides detail on why ITA Secure Messaging blocked this email and provides detail of what score assigned to the email and why. top Auto Archive ITA Secure Messaging by design never deletes any emails - they get quarantined. This means that even if the email is removed from the SMTP server it is saved on the machine where the Rules Engine is running. These emails can take a lot of room on the hard disk if they are not removed. ITA Secure Messaging comes with an Auto Archive feature that compresses these emails on a daily bases into the "archive" directory. A system administrator can change the number of days after which a message gets archived. top Live Monitoring Watch messages as they come in into the system. This window not only shows what emails are coming in, but also the reason for its final score. This feature is very helpful for system administrators to fine tune the rules on the ITA Secure Messaging server. 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