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11.5.1.Settings
In the Engine performance settings dialog you can check the Turn on Anti-Spam
protection checkbox to allow/forbid the anti-spam scanning of e-mail
communication.
In this dialog you can also select more or less aggressive scoring measures. The Anti-
Spam filter assigns each message a score (i.e. how similar the message content is to
SPAM ) based on several dynamic scanning techniques. You can adjust the Mark
message as spam if score is greater than setting by either typing the value (0 to
100) or by moving the slider left or right (using the slider, the range of values is
limited to 50-90).
Generally we recommended setting the threshold between 50-90, or if you are really
unsure, to 90. Here is a general review of the scoring threshold:
 Value 90-99 - Most incoming e-mail messages will be delivered normally
(without being marked as spam). The most easily identified spam will be filtered
out, but a significant amount of spam may still be allowed through.
 Value 80-89 - E-mail messages likely to be spam will be filtered out. Some
non-spam messages may be incorrectly filtered as well.