User manual BARRACUDA BARRACUDA SPAM AND VIRUS FIREWALL V4

[. . . ] From the quarantine summary report you can also add messages to your whitelist, delete messages, and have messages delivered to your inbox. The following figure shows an example of a quarantine summary report. 3 Click to access your quarantine interface to set preferences and classify messages Select to deliver, whitelist or delete quarantined messages Using the Quarantine Interface At the end of every quarantine summary report is a link to the quarantine interface where you can set additional preferences and classify messages as spam and not spam. Logging into the Quarantine Interface To log into your quarantine interface: · · Click the link provided at the bottom of the Quarantine Summary Report (displayed above). Enter your username and password, and click Login. Your login information resides in the greeting message sent to you from the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall. Using your Quarantine Inbox After logging into the quarantine interface, select the QUARANTINE INBOX tab to view a list of your quarantined messages. When you first start using the quarantine interface, you should view this list on a daily basis and classify as many messages as you can. [. . . ] Note: Some bulk commercial email may be considered useful by some users and spam by others. For this reason, classifying such messages may not be very effective because users may counteract each others' classification. Instead of classifying bulk commercial email, it may be more effective to add it to your whitelist (if you wish to receive such messages) or blacklist (if you prefer not to receive them). Classifies the selected message as spam. Classify as Spam Changing your User Preferences After logging into your quarantine interface, depending on your account permissions, you can use the PREFERENCES tab to change your account password, modify your quarantine and spam settings, and manage your whitelist and blacklist. Changing your Account Password To change your account password, do one of the following: · On the quarantine interface login page, click Create New Password, or 5 · After logging into your quarantine interface, go to PREFERENCES > Password. This option is not available if single sign on has been enabled via LDAP or Radius. In the provided fields, enter your existing password and enter your new password twice. Click Save Changes when finished. Note Changing your password breaks the links in your existing quarantine summary reports so you cannot delete, deliver, or whitelist messages from those reports. New quarantine summary reports will contain updated links that you can use the same as before. Changing Your Quarantine Settings The following table describes the quarantine settings you can change from the PREFERENCES > Quarantine Settings page, depending on how the administrator has configured your account: Quarantine Setting Enable Quarantine Description Whether the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall quarantines your messages. If you select Yes, the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall does not deliver quarantined messages to your general email inbox, but you can view these messages from the quarantine interface and quarantine summary reports. If you select No, all messages that would have been quarantined for you are delivered to your general email inbox with the subject line prefixed with [QUAR]:. The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall administrator can modify this prefix. Notification Interval The frequency the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall sends you quarantine summary reports. The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall only sends quarantine summary reports when one or more of your emails have been quarantined. If you select Never, you can still view your quarantined messages from the quarantine interface, but you will not receive quarantine summary reports. Notification Address The email address the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall should use to deliver your quarantine summary report. Leave this field blank to use the email address associated with your user account. The language in which you want to receive your quarantine notifications. This setting also sets the default encoding for handling unknown character sets during filtering. All email notifications from the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall are in UTF8 encoding. Default Language Enabling and Disabling Spam Scanning of your Email If you do not want the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall scanning your emails for spam content, you can disable spam filtering from the PREFERENCES > Spam Settings page. From this page you can also change the default spam scoring levels that determine when your emails are tagged, quarantined or blocked. When the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall receives an email for you, it scores the message for its spam probability. This score ranges from 0 (definitely not spam) to 10 or higher (definitely spam). Based on this score, the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall either allows, quarantines, or blocks the message. 6 Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall User's Guide A setting of 10 for any setting disables that option. The following table describes the fields on the PREFERENCES > Spam Settings page. Setting Description Spam Filter Enable/Disable Enable Spam Filtering Spam Scoring Use System Defaults Tag score Select Yes to use the default scoring levels. [. . . ] This backup copy can then be uploaded to any Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall, including this one, in the case of a corrupt Bayesian installation. Click Browse to select the backup file containing your Bayesian database, and then click Upload Now to load the Bayesian settings to this Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall. The backup file does not need to have originated from this Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall, nor from the same user database. 7 Adding Email Addresses and Domains to Your Whitelist and Blacklist The PREFERENCES > Whitelist/Blacklist page lets you specify email addresses and domains from which you do or do not want to receive emails. List Type Whitelist Description The list of email addresses or domains from which you always wish to receive messages. The only time the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall blocks a message from someone on your whitelist is when the message contains a virus or a disallowed attachment file extension. [. . . ]