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X-TM-AS-Product-Ver

Product Name - Product Version - Anti-Spam Engine Version - Spam Pattern Version

X-TM-AS-Result

Spam: Yes/NO - Trend Score - Detection Threshold - Category - Trend Type

 
  • The results for all the rules that triggered (X-TM-AS-Result is "Yes") are placed in the X-TM-AS-Result X-header. If no SPS Filter is triggered (X-TM-AS-Result is "No"), only the result of the first rule that processed the messages is placed in the X-TM-AS-Result X-header.
  • The Spam score may show -1.813, which will indicate a spam score of "1.813". If the spam score shows --1.813 (two negative signs), this indicates a spam score of "-1.813".
  • The 'Trend Type' has value 1 (spam) by default. The value 2 (phish) appears if there is a match in the phish database.

X-imss-scan-details

This keeps all the results for each spam or phishing filters which were executed for the message. If a message is processed using multiple SPS Filters, the result for each rule is placed in the X-imss-scan-details X-header, in the sequence by which the rules were applied. In other words, the first entry is for the first rule applied, and the last is for the last rule applied.

X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender

This is the Approved Senders List Check. If matched, the message will not be considered a spam. This will match any address in the Approved Sender List.

X-TM-AS-user-Blocked-Sender

Report as Spam if the mail sender specified in the header "matches any address in the Blocked Sender List".

X-TM-AS-Result-Xfilter

Text Exemption Rules / X-Filter Check - report as Not Spam if "any regular expression" is specified in the Text Exemption Rules triggers.

How does IMSS determine if a message is spam or not?

The example below determines how IMSS detects a message as spam:

X-TM-AS-Result: Yes-5.339-5.0-31-1

This shows the results as follows: Spam Yes/No - Trend Score - Detection Threshold Spam Determination is the calculated Trend Score compared with the Detection Threshold. If the Trend Score is higher or equal, the email is classified as spam:

Trend_Score >= Detection_Threshold

The Trend score is determined using all the TMASE rule files and is a sum of the scores for all the matches.

The detection Threshold corresponds to the Administration Console settings configured for the Spam Filter Settings.The results:

X-TM-AS-Result: Yes-5.339-5.0-31-1
Spam: YES because 5.339 >= 5.0 Trend Score: 5.339
Detection Threshold: 5.0