Web Administration

These web pages are being redesigned to be more usable and visually appealing.

Using the Web Console

The web console, SPAMAdmin.ASP, allows you to add and remove keywords, domain names, and host entries from the database. When removing data, any records that match the string of text you enter in the delete field will be removed.

When adding keywords, make sure they are not common words that would cause normal e-mails to be blocked. A keyword can be either a single word or multiple words, like a phrase or part of a sentence. See Managing Keywords below for more information.

Statistics and Log Page

The Statistics and Log page lets you quickly view all incoming SMTP messages that are blocked or delivered to users or public folders.

Using Show Log Data, you can view "SPAM Messages" that have been blocked or "Valid Messages" that have been delivered. There are also a few options to narrow down the results displayed. The "Blocked Reason" drop-down box lists the reasons why a particular set of SPAM messages were blocked followed by the number of messages blocked for that reason. When you choose a value from this drop-down and click Show Log Data, only SPAM messages that were blocked due to the selected reason are listed.

The "Message Recipient Search String" field supports searching on the target e-mail address of all messages. For example, if you enter "John.Smith" and click Show Log Data, the messages sent to any recipient containing "John.Smith" are shown. The page automatically inserts wildcards before and after the string you enter. You can also use "Display Fields" to select which fields are displayed by holding down the CTRL key and clicking the desired fields. Advanced note

You can enter a SQL search string in the "Message Recipient Search String" field. This field support advanced search strings like "'%john.smith%' or MsgRecipientlist like '%Jane.Smith%'" The first part of the search string is always "MsgRecipientlist like".

Quick Reports

There are four (4) "Quick Reports" used to display information to help fight spam:

Top SPAM Recipients	Top 10 users who receive the most spam.
Top SPAM Senders	Top 20 DNS names sending SPAM to your server(s).
Top SPAM Class C	Top 20 Class C IP addresses of severs sending SPAM to your server. You can reference this report when setting up blocking on your Exchange 2000 incoming SMTP virtual server.
Possible Matches	Lists messages that would have been blocked if your SPAM filter level were set higher - only valid when LogPossibleMatches=True and both SPAMBlockLevel and SPAMTagLevel are less than 6 (the highest level).