Note:Praetor was developed to implement techniques that are highly effective in combating spam. These techniques were obtained from the profiling and analysis of countless spam email messages, many of which were graciously provided by the Spam Recycling Center. Praetor, therefore, guards against tactics that are commonly used by the perpetrators of spam. It also has a flexible means of extending those techniques using a scripting language to add to its effectiveness as new spam techniques appear.
This manual starts with a technical overview in Chapter 1. Beginning with standard Internet messaging basics, the material is presented so that you have a firm grasp of how anti-spam techniques can be used at key message processing events. Discussion then focuses on how the Praetor product will fit within an existing email infrastructure at your company.
Chapter 2 provides some pre-installation considerations including requirements for Praetor and recommendations for the equipment needed. Also covered are the few preparatory steps for Windows XP Professional, 2000 or 2003 Server.
Chapter 3 deals with the Praetor installation process which now consists of installing the following three components in the following order: SQL databases, SMTP filter component, and personal Log Viewer web application.
Chapter 4 deals with the configuration although you will likely used most of the product's default settings. In this way, you can quickly get Praetor started. This chapter is set up in a referential manner for each feature found in the administration program with many active links in the screenshots. These links will show you how to configure Praetor's filtering capabilities and adjust settings to reflect with your own experiences and needs.
Chapter 5 discusses the message-level rules that can be created, with detailed description of the two different rule types, conditional and global, and the components that make up a rule: conditions and actions. Rule templates are supplied to make the creation of new rules even simpler based upon the template.
Chapter 6 has a discussion of the user-based licensing that Praetor implements.
Chapters 7 and 8 discuss two useful Praetor utilities Praetor -- the Log Viewer and Log Analyzer. The Log Viewer is used to deal with the messages that are quarantined. Also provided are instructions on how to provide your local users to access their personal message log via a web browser within your network. The Log Analyzer is a Microsoft Access application that will access the SQL database of Praetor log entries to analyze and report on the message traffic passing through Praetor.
The final chapter lists several command-line tools for use in managing Praetor.
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The end of this manual contains appendices on various topics:
A. Listing of all SMTP protocol level tests
B. Supplied message level rules
C. How to contact Computer Mail Services
D. Resources found on the Internet
E. Details of Praetor scripting resources