Cloudmark Server Edition

If you have ever used email before then there is a good chance that you have received unsolicited emails, otherwise known as Spam.  Email users have long been sufferers of the “Junk Email” battle.  It takes a lot of time for employees to sort thru the good email from the bad.  Add this up across an enterprise and you have a lot of lost productivity.  Cloudmark Server Edition is installed on a Microsoft Exchange Server and monitors the mailboxes for incoming spam.  Any spam that is found is handled immediately and cleaned before the user ever sees the message.  Thus freeing up valuable time by only needing to look at your “Real” email.

How Cloudmark Server Edition Works

Cloudmark Server Edition communicates with the Microsoft Exchange Server through Microsoft's standard Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI) to receive notifications when messages arrive, and to perform various preconfigured actions in users' mailboxes on messages that have been determined to be spam.

1. Email arrives at the Microsoft Exchange Server
2. CSE computes unique fingerprinting algorithms for each message received
3. CSE queries Cloudmark Service with the fingerprint algorithms
4. Cloudmark Service identifies each fingerprint algorithm as spam or legitimate
5. If spam, CSE instructs the Microsoft Exchange Server to move the message to the spam folder

Compute Fingerprints

As email arrives and the Exchange Server routes it to its addressees, Cloudmark Server Edition computes a unique fingerprint or indistinguishable one-way hash for each message and sends it to the Cloudmark Service for evaluation.

Network Transparency

Cloudmark Server Edition does not block the regular flow of messages, so its operation has no impact on throughput. When the Cloudmark Service determines that a message is spam it notifies the Cloudmark Server Edition server.

Tag or Move Spam?

Based on how Cloudmark Server Edition is configured, Cloudmark Server Edition then either: Tags the message in the addressee's mailbox, moves it to a spam folder, or deletes it.

Statistics and Reporting

Administrators can get statistics about how many messages CSE is filtering, how many users are enabled and how much time and money the product is saving the organization to prove ROI and increased productivity across your corporation.