Commercial bulk email detection

The service offers a way to configure your settings to detect inbound commercial bulk email messages and to perform certain actions on them, such as quarantining, or tagging the message subject so that users can easily identify commercial email.

To enable commercial bulk email detection, do the following:

Steps

  1. Under Commercial Bulk Email Detection, select Analyze for commercial bulk email.
  2. Select the action you’d like performed when commercial bulk email is detected:
    • Take no action. No action is taken on the commercial bulk email detected.
    • Tag the message subject. The subject of detected commercial bulk email messages are tagged with “COMMERCIAL:” or a custom tag that you enter.
    • Quarantine the message. Commercial bulk email messages are kept in quarantine for up to 30 days. Note that no notifications are sent for this disposition.
  3. Select the sensitivity level of the feature:
    • Normal detects email that comes from known commercial bulk email sources.
    • High detects email that comes from known commercial bulk email sources or email that contains commercial content.
  4. Click Submit when you are finished.

    Note that the subject tag that you select will also be used in all antispam exceptions.

    Note: If you wish to run a report that shows the number of commercial bulk email messages you have received, these messages will only be counted if you have selected Analyze for commercial bulk email.