Marshal Filter Technology

SpamDunk run Marshal’s latest technology which enables us to tailor email services according our customers specific business requirements.

This service works by diverting customer’s mail through a powerful anti-spam engine. Obvious spam is deflected. Clean mail is delivered seamlessly to customer’s mail boxes. Marginal mail is quarantined securely off-site and is easily accessible via reporting functions. The intelligence built into this solution enables filtering to be easily fine-tuned to individual user's specific requirements.

This unique solution utilizes the Marshal SpamCensor anti-spam technology engine. SpamCensor is a multi-faceted, heuristic spam filter. Bluegate 420/Bluegate 490 solution incorporates heuristic message analysis, header composition analysis, ESMTP receiver checking and HELO checks, RBL or Real-time Blackhole List referencing and many other spam identification technologies. The end result is a 99.5% spam detection rate with near zero false positives. Filtering is extremely fast and efficient. Anti-spam updates are maintained and automatically distributed. Customers are offered a range of spam handling options, from blocking spam outright to tagging subject lines and delivering the messages

Marshal is a tried and true anti-spam brand. SpamDunk’s Bluegate420/Bluegate 490 solution combines the benefits of managed off-site filtering with Marshal’s proven performance.

The infrastructure

For many New Zealand businesses email is a mission critical form of communication. Thus our filter needed a mission critical infrastructure. That is why we partnered with MaxNet.

Maxnet was established in 1998 and today is one of the few New Zealand Internet Service Providers (ISPs) solely focused on delivering mission critical internet solutions. Maxnet are consistently featured in New Zealand’s top ISP list and are well recognised for their support and management prowess.

With the dedicated MaxNet team working with SpamDunk to manage our anti-spam infrastructure, customers can feel confident that their mail will be delivered reliably and securely.

Reporting and Management

One man’s spam is another man’s newsletter. Hence the ability to report on blocked emails is vital. Good management tools significantly reduce IT management time and resource. SpamDunk’s management tool let administrators and/or end-users manage their mail simply and effectively.

SpamDunk’s management tool provides customers with a whole range of management features.

• Today Page - Live statistics on your mail vs. spam
• Quarantine - with a search engine, capable of releasing mail that was stopped
• Reporting tool - produces daily, weekly and monthly reports for administrators