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			Within WebMail there is a number of Spam Control options available.
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				<td><b>Friends</b> -  
					automatically stores email from unknown senders in your 'pending' folder awaiting a
					reply to a confirmation message. This helps check they are a real person and not just a spam
					program.
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				<td><b>Spam Filtering</b> - 
					automatically stores email that is suspected to be spam in your 'held' folder
					for 2 weeks.  You can go to your 'held' folder to release messages wrongly identified as spam.</td>
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				<td><b>SPF filtering</b> - This blocks most spam by rejecting emails where the sending machine is not the mail server for the domain used in the from address</td>
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			We recommend users control spam by setting

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				<td><b>Friends - On</b></td>
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				<td><b>SPF filtering - on</b> or <b>Spam Filtering - on</b></td>
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		<td>	<b>Friends</b>. Messages from people on your friends 
			list are identified and passed directly to inbox skipping the 
			remaining spam filtering steps. 
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		<td>	<b>SPF</b> (Sender Permitted From) determines whether the connecting 
			machine is allowed to send email for the domain in the 'from' address. 
			If the domain has not yet set up SPF records a best guess is made to see
			if the machine is reasonable. 
			In the case of a rejected email, the response back to the sender informs
			them that the domain has not yet set up SPF records. It also includes how to 
			register the domain in the 'from' address to allow their emails to be received.
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		<td>	<b>Accept Rules</b>. The allow exception rules are then processed,
			these are used to bypass normal spam and friends filtering.
			Users should be careful setting up such exceptions. 
			A exception might allow anything with my secret 
			password in the subject, or from my boss email address.
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		<td>	<b>Filters</b>. Next the users filtering and exceptions rules are processed 
			to check for special rules like, move incoming mail to particular 
			folders.
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		<td>	<b>Spam Rules</b>. Next the step is the "adaptive spam detection 
			system". This is used to determine the spam score of the email. 
			The users spam rules are then be applied to determine if the email is
			to be marked as spam, placed in the held folder, 
			bounced back to sender or deleted.
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		<td>	<b>Friends</b>. The friends challenge response system is then applied. 
			This will place messages which match the friends setting, 
			in the pending folder while a request for confirmation is sent 
			back to the sender. 
			Friends confirmations can be used for all unknown senders, 
			just for suspicious looking emails or no-one. 
			Recommended setting: is require confirmation 
			for any email with spam rating of 1 or more. Responses to 
			confirmation requests are handled in step 3 and will release 
			messages from the pending folder into the inbox.
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