How the CDS Anti-Spam Solution Works

when you address a regular envelope, you put the person name, address, city, state and zip on it. The post office knows, based on the address, where to deliver the envelope. Someone in your house takes the mail and delivers it to the person who it is truly addressed to. Email works in a similar fashion. When email is sent to you, the Internet reads the second half of your email address (@YourCompany.com) and delivers it to the email server that is associated with @YourCompany.com. The email software on your PC reaches out to your own email server to get your email. But how does the Internet know to deliver email addressed to @YourCompany.com to your email server?

When you register your company’s domain name (YourCompany.com) on the Internet, you create a mail delivery record known as an MX record. This MX record points all email address to @YourCompany.com to your email server.

To get rid of spam, CDS does the following. We change your MX record and have it point, not to your email server, but to our CDS AntiSpam server where we use the latest filtering methods to filter out the spam. The CDS AntiSpam server then forwards all good email on to your regular email server where your PCs are expecting it to be. Spam mail is kept on our CDS AntiSpam server for a period of 7 days. Your users can log on to our CDS AntiSpam server to see what email has been filtered and can allow certain email to get through, after all, some people may want the Viagra emails.

That’s how it works. Not much to do on your side. CDS will work with your IT department to implement and will give you access to the filtering tools. Most users are reporting better than 90% success in filtering their email.

 

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