Webservio SpamWeeder provides email server security by utilizing a group of sophisticated filtering technologies that work in parallel to provide threat protection for your mail server. SpamWeeder prevents more than 99% of spam, viruses, phishing, and other invasive attempts. SpamWeeder works by sheltering your MX record from the public so that spammers can not easily view your mail server by completing simple MX record inquiries.

• Continuous Filtering Method - Incoming Only

Primary Mail Server Normal Connectivity

Any messages that are sent to your mail server must first filter through the SpamWeeder system. SpamWeeder determines if the messages are clean and delivers only the acceptable mail. Blatant spam is rejected and suspect messages are held in a quarantine. Administrators and/or end-users can view the suspicious emails through a web-based interface and decide whether to discard the held messages or release them to their email in box.

Primary Mail Server Down Time

During primary mail server interruptions, all messages continue to flow through the internet and the SpamWeeder filtering gateways.  The filtering gateways are set to deliver all messages to your Webservio Mail Bagging service for failover.  As a result, only clean messages are held and copied to employee Email Continuity accounts.  This drastically reduces the amount of valuable storage space required while increasing the overall disaster recovery system efficiency.

Employees' Email Continuity accounts are not filled with spam, thus allowing them to continue to work productively.  When your primary mail server becomes available, your network resources are not burdened with processing spam.

• Bagged Message Filtering Only

Primary Mail Server Down Time

By setting the SpamWeeder gateways within your domain's (or your domains') MX records at a lower priority than your primary mail server, messages can be filtered only during primary mail server failure.  While this method does decrease the amount of storage space required for the disaster recovery service as a whole, it does not shelter your primary mail server from public view.  As a result, spammers will continue to be able to easily send spam directly to your mail server.