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General Description

Ruckus MailFILTER is a thorough and effective enterprise-class email filtering application that will accurately identify and weed out email spam, and - just as importantly - not block valid email. Ruckus MailFILTER eliminates the day-to-day burden on employees to sort through the ever-growing mountain of spam and reduce liability for employee harassment from adult-content spam on the corporate system.

Filtering accuracy is accomplished through the state-of-the-art Smart Bayesian™ A.I. as well as proven anti-spam techniques to analyze email messages and identify spam.

Ruckus MailFILTER is installed to reside at the email server's Internet gateway, and works effectively for any email system - from small office servers to ISP systems. There is no software to install on end-user computers, as each user's access to Ruckus MailFILTER is a web-based interface using their Internet browser.

The entire Ruckus MailFILTER system can be customized by IT-staff modification of the appropriate configuration files - during installation or at any time during system operation. In addition, Ruckus MailFILTER can be installed to interface with any third-party application (i.e. - anti-virus, security, etc.) as part of the normal email filtering and analysis process.

The 'look and feel' of the Ruckus MailFILTER web-based interface page can be modified to conform to any corporate brand requirement and/or personal taste by using the Ruckus Template Engine™ (Ruckus RTE™) included as part of the software package.


How Ruckus MailFILTER works

Ruckus MailFILTER acts as a proxy for the regular email server for accepting inbound email and screening outbound email.

  • INBOUND EMAIL
    Inbound mail flow

    After Ruckus MailFILTER has filtered and analyzed the inbound mail (and if desired, has sent the email to a third-party anti-virus application to scan for viruses), acceptable mail is forwarded to the mail server for normal delivery. Probable spam and blacklisted email is rejected, or tagged and delivered, or quarantined based on user-defined preferences.

    The heart of the Ruckus MailFILTER system is the Smart Bayesian™ engine, which can be easily 'trained' by each user to incorporate their personal definition of 'spam' when the system filters their email. Ongoing uploads of new filter 'rules' or the day-to-day hands-on monitoring of incoming mail to update lists, rules and other protocols is not required to maintain the Ruckus MailFILTER spam-filtering effectiveness.

  • OUTBOUND EMAIL

    If enabled by the user, Ruckus MailFILTER screens outbound email to automatically record each email address on the individual user's 'white list'. Ruckus MailFILTER will also route each user's 'training' directions to the Smart Bayesian™ engine.

    Inbound mail flow

Return On Investment

ROI benefits are noteworthy.

  • Reduce the day-to-day burden on employees to sort through the ever-growing mountain of spam.
  • Reduce liability for employee harassment from adult-content spam on the corporate system.
  • Minimize administration costs.
  • Enjoy a low total cost of operation.

Client Requirements
  • Any modern web browser
  • Any modern E-mail client

  • Supported Client Platforms
  • Microsoft
  • Apple MacOS
  • BSD
  • Linux
  • Sun
  • Operates on any device which supports a standard web browser and network access to the Ruckus MailFILTER web page.


    Supported Server Platforms
  • BSD
  • Linux
  • Sun
  • Operates on any SMTP system that uses a milter aware sendmail gateway.


    Server Requirements
  • Web server with CGI support (http://httpd.apache.org)
  • Sendmail™ 8.11 (or later) with milter support (http://www.sendmail.org)
  • Perl 5.8 (or later) (http://www.perl.com)
  • Roughly 25 Megabytes of free hard drive space
  • Powered by: Ruckus Tool Kit & Ruckus Template Engine © 1998 - 2004 FPSN.NET Development, Inc. All rights reserved.

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