We have released version 7.1 of the control panel. This contains a number of enhancements to the Spam + Virus filtering platform including the interfaces and the cluster design. A few of the key points to mention are:
1. The Spam + Virus filtering cluster has been restructured to a 2-tier model. A diagram representing this can be found at:
http://www.icukhosting.co.uk/images/spam_cluster_large.jpg
This new design has helped improve efficiency and redundancy.
2. We have redesigned the interfaces for managing your Spam Filtering. This should be more intuitive and spread out over multiple sections as opposed to the one-page layout.
3. Increased sensitivity of the filter allowing you to adjust the required number of points by ±0.1.
4. Increased number of reverse DNS checks, available with three levels. We recommend leaving the default settings at the ‘basic’ level, although if you wish to restrict more spam try increasing this to the intermediate or advanced settings.
5. Improved statistics help show you how effective some of the checks are at stopping email. This includes information surrounding the black list checks which stop the majority of spam messages.
6. External Spam + Virus filtering customers that make use of our mail queuing / backup facilities will be please to see that you can now de-queue messages that are stored. We will store messages for up to seven days.
