Overview

Is Spam Bringing Your Business to a Halt?

For most organisations, email is the most convenient, cheapest and efficient way to communicate. But unwanted email, or spam, is an a potential virus threat and therefore poses an email risk that can slow down a business, and viruses can even bring it to a screeching halt. Spammers, virus writers and the like purposely target email systems unrelentingly and ingeniously. The main issue with spam and viruses found in emails that can contribute to a possible email risk is that they can compromise or disable systems and affect performance, while corrupting or stealing data. It's no exaggeration to say that spam has the power to ruin an organisation's hard-earned reputation, or at the very least waste your colleagues' valuable time and effort.

As recently as last April, levels of spam were at several billion messages every day. In fact, spam now averages more than three quarters of all email sent.

What is Email Filtering?

Email filtering is a way of reducing the dangers presented by email spam viruses that can lead to email risks. It involves processing electronic messages to organise them according to specific criteria. Email filtering can involve the automatic processing of messages, but it also applies to human intervention as well as anti-spam techniques. Email filtering can apply to incoming and outgoing messages.

Some email filtering passes the message directly to the user's mailbox or it may redirect the message for delivery elsewhere, or even discard the message completely. Some mail filters are able to edit messages during processing.

What is Email Archiving?

Email archiving is the capturing and keeping of all email traffic flowing in and out an email server, allowing it to be accessed easily later on from a centrally-managed location. There are email archiving applications on the market suitable for most major email messaging systems, and their installation can either be done in-house or outsourced.

Email Filtering and Email Archiving from MessageStream

MessageStream is the ultimate hosted mail management service, giving you peace of mind and reducing threats posed by viruses in spam emails that can potentially cause an email risk, allowing you to focus on your priority - your business.

MessageStream's hosted anti-spam service accurately and efficiently filters away all spam, viruses and unwanted emails. It's quick so that email isn't held up, but more than 90 tests are carried out on each message, and spam is held for 14 days for you to inspect it. MessageStream is compatible with any SMTP server, and can weed out 99% of the spam posing a nuisance or potentially corruptive threat, and therefore email risk, to your business.

MessageStream's email archiving service is pretty smart too. It can tell what should be archived and stores messages efficiently off-site, and there's no continuing maintenance or management. Essentially, the email archiving service can provide a reliable and complete archive of every single message which passes in and out of your business.

This service can also give you extra peace of mind when it comes to compliance, and help reduce the costs of email storage. It's especially helpful if you experience a data failure, or an employee dispute, since you'll have a complete trail of every message.

A super-fast system means archiving is done in seconds.

With an established track record, MessageStream can seriously reduce the damage that can be caused by inaccurate archiving, or spam viruses that pose an email risk.