Anti-Spam Training Wizard - AVG 9.0 EMAIL SERVER EDITION - REVISED 10-2009 User Manual

In this dialog you can also select more or less aggressive scoring measures. The Anti-
Spam filter assigns each message a score (i.e. how similar the message content is to
SPAM) based on several dynamic scanning techniques. You can adjust the Mark
message as spam if the score is greater or equal to setting by either typing the
value (0 to 100) or by moving the slider left or right (using the slider, the range of
values is limited to 50-90).
Generally we recommended setting the threshold between 50-90, or if you are really
unsure, to 90. Here is a general review of the scoring threshold:
Value 90-99 - Most incoming e-mail messages will be delivered normally (without
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being marked as spam). The most easily identified
significant amount of
Value 80-89 - E-mail messages likely to be
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spam messages may be incorrectly filtered as well.
Value 60-79 - Considered as a quite aggressive configuration. E-mail messages
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that are possibly
caught as well.
Value 1-59 - Very aggressive configuration. Non-spam e-mail messages are as
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likely to be caught as real
recommended for normal use.
Value 0 - In this mode, you will only receive e-mail messages from senders in
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your Whitelist. Any other e-mail messages will be considered as spam. This
threshold range is not recommended for normal use.
You can further define how the detected
Modify subject for messages marked as spam - tick this check box if you
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would like all messages detected as
character in the e-mail subject field; the desired text can be typed in the
activated text field.
Train Anti-Spam button opens the
the next chapter.

7.3.1. Anti-Spam Training Wizard

The first dialog of the Anti-Spam Training Wizard asks you to select the source of
e-mail messages you want to use for training. Usually, you will want to use either e-
mails that have been incorrectly marked as SPAM, or spam messages that have not
been recognized.
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spam may still be allowed through.
spam will be filtered out. Non-spam messages are likely to be
spam messages. This threshold range is not
spam
spam
Anti-Spam training wizard
spam will be filtered out, but a
spam will be filtered out. Some non-
e-mail messages should be treated:
to be marked with a specific word or
described in details in
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