What happens to emails recognized as SPAM?
The gateway device is updated on a daily basis with descriptions, or signatures, that indicate an email as being potential SPAM. As an email is analyzed it is given a score depending on how many characteristics an email contains that indicate the possibility of the email being SPAM. Based on the score received, an email can be blocked, quarantined, tagged, or simply passed on. Emails with the highest potential of being SPAM are blocked. Emails with an above average SPAM potential are quarantined and the intended recipient is notified of the quarantine. Those message with an average indication of being SPAM are passed on to the recipient but labeled in the subject line, or “tagged”, as [SPAM?] thus allowing the recipient to see the message and decide what to do with the message immediately. All other messages are merely passed through the gateway to the recipient.
