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Imaginet uses a bespoke spam filtering system aimed at providing the best possible spam filtering with near-zero [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive#False_positive_error false-positives]. Techniques used include:
 
Imaginet uses a bespoke spam filtering system aimed at providing the best possible spam filtering with near-zero [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive#False_positive_error false-positives]. Techniques used include:
  
- [http://jessekornblum.com/presentations/cdfsl07.pdf Fuzzy checksums]
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- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSBL URIBLs and RBLs]: internal, [http://dnsbl.invaluement.com/ Invaluement], [http://sorbs.net SORBS], [http://www.gbudb.com/truncate/ GBUDB], [http://wl.org.za/ Whitelist ZA]
  
- [http://osbf-lua.luaforge.net/papers/osbf-eddc.pdf Advanced bayesian statistics]
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- Virus and [http://sanesecurity.com/ spam] filtering with [http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/ ClamAV]
  
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSBL URIBLs and RBLs]: internal, [http://www.spamhaus.org/ Spamhaus ZEN & DBL], [http://sorbs.net SORBS], [http://www.gbudb.com/truncate/ GBUDB], [http://wl.org.za/ Whitelist ZA]
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- Checking of mail against a 'fuzzy' checksum database generated from mail received by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamtrap spamtraps]
  
- Virus and [http://sanesecurity.com/ spam] filtering with [http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/ ClamAV]
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- [http://osbf-lua.luaforge.net/papers/osbf-eddc.pdf Advanced bayesian statistics]
  
 
- Global and [https://my.imaginet.co.za customer-operated] address blacklists & whitelists
 
- Global and [https://my.imaginet.co.za customer-operated] address blacklists & whitelists

Latest revision as of 14:25, 14 August 2014

Imaginet uses a bespoke spam filtering system aimed at providing the best possible spam filtering with near-zero false-positives. Techniques used include:

- URIBLs and RBLs: internal, Invaluement, SORBS, GBUDB, Whitelist ZA

- Virus and spam filtering with ClamAV

- Checking of mail against a 'fuzzy' checksum database generated from mail received by spamtraps

- Advanced bayesian statistics

- Global and customer-operated address blacklists & whitelists

- Strict enforcement of SPF

Spam-filtered mail is delivered to a Spam Quarantine or, if there is enough of a consensus between the systems we employ, discarded.

You can help us improve accuracy by reporting misclassified mail to us, please see How to report spam to Imaginet

How you can prevent spam

How you can blacklist email addresses

What does Imaginet consider spam abuse

How to report spam to Imaginet