

The content filter is very powerful in that again you can setup Black and White-list filters for not only content but attachments also simple but very effective.

A great feature of this which I have not seen before is if a user in your organization emails a user outside your domain then they are automatically added to the white-list!. The Sender Filter enables you to setup Black/White lists, thus allowing you to micro manage spam down from Domain level to email address level. The Virus Filter allows you to specify how deep you scan your Exchange organization and what it should do when it finds a Virus, delete, quarantine and notify. The filters are spilt into 5 sections, Virus Filtering, Sender Filtering, Content Filtering, Community Filtering and a Language Filter. If you have played with the built in Exchange 2013 modules then you will be more that aware that it is 100% power shell only, you will be happy to find that with SPAMFighter it is 100% gui – and all the features cancan be configured with just a few clicks. Ive put this its own sub section as while I was writing this review it became more apparent that you can configure a pretty impressive array of policies. The section Ive left until last is Policies, this is where we configure how we manage spam in our organization.

As it is Active directory integrated you can configure it so the Exchange Enterprise Admins can manage the plugin. User groups allows you to create groups that can manage SPAMFighter. The plugin section allows you to configure various plugins including POP3 support, a toolbar that you can integrate into your web browser so you can tailor SPAMFighter to your organizations needs such as branding and allowing users to manage Anti Spam features. The Mailboxes setting allows on a Mailbox level to see statistics, individual user settings and an individual Quarantine section, so that if an email is flagged as spam then you can go to the users mailbox and inspect the email and decide whether to either delete the email or allow it to proceed to the end user. Here I will concentrate on the configuration section, this is split into 4 sub sections – Mailboxes, Policies, Plugins and User-groups. Management of SPAMFighter is done via web interface, this sits on your Exchange 2013 server on port 5000, it is Active Directory integrated and you can configure groups for application management and is accessible via.
