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Anti-Spam Service: Reviewing Trapped Messages



Once you have set your default stream, the Anti-spam filter will begin trapping messages. To review and determine the correct action or status for these messages, you will want to review the trapped messages.

NOTE: Trapped messages will remain in the system for review for 7 days. After 7 days messages remaining in the trap that have not been acted upon will be silently discarded.

  1. Open your Internet browser.
  2. Go to the CanIt-PRO login page at antispam.osu.edu.
  3. Type your lastname.# and OSU Internet Username password, then click the Log In button.
  4. Click Pending Messages in the Current Statistics frame.
    -OR-
    Click Trap Contents in the CanIt Spam Trap toolbar.

Trap Contents page

  1. Review Pending messages. Under "Score", the colored number is the basic Spam Trap score; the higher the number, the "spammier" the message based on the filter's built-in rules. The percentage number in parenthesis (if present) represents the likelihood that the message is spam based on your personal Bayesian training corpus.

Note: Click the message links for more information about the trapped message:

Click this link:

To do this:

Date

View additional information about the incident including the spam scale Score of the message, the Spam Analysis Report, and a History of message actions taken.

Subject

View the message text.

Sender

Set a rule (e.g., Always Allow or Always Reject) for all messages from this sender.

Relay

View additional information about the originating domain or IP address.

  1. Select the appropriate Action for your Pending messages from the drop down menu.

Note: Use the All buttons (Do Nothing, Accept, and Reject) to quickly select the same Action for all of your messages. Click Show Help in the yellow frame on the Trap Contents page for explanations of the available Actions.

  1. Click [Submit Changes].
  2. Click Log Out (if desired).

Another option is to select appropriate Actions for some of the messages, then

  1. Click [Submit Changes].
  2. Click Back to Messages (in the lower left hand corner), and make determinations for the remaining messages, then
  3. Click [Submit Changes].
  4. Click Log Out (if desired).


Current Record: 2450

Create Date: 04-20-2005
Last Reviewed: 04-30-2007
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