MessageLabs Hosted Email AntiSpam Filter


Hosted Email Anti-Spam Filtering Service

MessageLabs Hosted Email Anti-Spam filtering service prevents spam from reaching your network. The multi-layered, gateway spam filter in the internet level has a service level for 99% spam capture, removing threats, improving your team’s productivity, and reducing the volume of mail reaching your organisation, so you can focus on running your business.

Our Email Anti-Spam filtering service is compatible with any SMTP-compliant email messaging platform including: Exchange Server , GroupWise, Lotus Notes-Domino, providing a cost effective spam filtering solution. Our spam filtering service is scalable to fit the needs of any size business and you can enhance your network security by adding our Email Anti-Virus filter.

Why use MessageLabs Hosted Anti-Spam Filter Service?

The Email Anti-Spam filter is a managed service. It requires no hardware purchases, no installation, no ongoing upgrades and no maintenance. MessageLabs hosted Email Anti-Spam filter can be deployed in minutes.

Challenge Hosted Anti-Spam Service Benefit
Prevent spam from reaching users’ in-boxes Has a service level to filter out 99% of spam Users don’t waste time filtering through junk messages
Ensure legitimate business email is not blocked Has a service level for 0.0003% false positive rate Users can be sure they are receiving business email
Minimise wasted bandwidth Filters spam at the internet level, before it reaches your network Removes spam before it reaches your network, so bandwidth is not wasted
Ensure continuous anti spam protection is in place Managed service which is always on and always up to date Continuous anti spam protection is in place – no more system updates


As with all MessageLabs products, our hosted Email Anti-Spam filtering service includes 24x7x365 support.

Anti-Spam Filtering Service- How it works:

MessageLabs Email Anti-Spam gateway service employs a unique suite of multi-layered spam filtering technologies to deliver dramatic cuts in the amount of spam reaching your network. Innovative Traffic Management and Connection Management capabilities identify unwanted email from known sources, slow it down and reject it. Our proprietary Skeptic™ technology, integrating heuristics rules, fuzzy fingerprinting and other techniques, then pinpoints spam from new and unknown sources, with near-perfect accuracy. Best-of-breed commercial spam filtering scanners provide additional layers of effective security.

Email Anti-Spam Information Exchange



  • All incoming emails are directed through the MessageLabs platform, hosted in secure data centers worldwide

  • Each email is scanned for spam from known and unknown sources using traffic management, Skeptic™ technology, and commercial anti-spam filters

  • Any email identified as spam is redirected, with multiple spam block and re-routing options available

  • Quarantined email and lists of approved and blocked senders are managed by administrators and/or end-users

  • Reports summarizing actions taken by the spam filter service can be generated easily

Getting started

Implementing our Email Anti-Spam Filtering service is a fast and easy process; you can be up and running within minutes. You simply pay a fixed monthly cost based on the number of users connected and the service is scalable, so new employees can be added easily as your business grows.

Our Email Anti-Spam filter combined with our Email Anti-Virus filter service increases email security. Other service options include Email Image Control, Email Content Control and Email Encryption which can be easily added on to the service, providing greater levels of protection to meet your organisation’s email security needs.

Take advantage of our free trial today.

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