Product Details

What does this offering provide?

Effective security takes a layered approach. Avoid user frustration and complaints of spam-filled inboxes and minimize the risk of users opening malicious emails. Administrators can easily enable an additional layer of email protection against email-borne threats with industry-leading, real time IP, Domain, and Hash blocklists from Spamhaus. By selecting the service in MDaemon’s Email Server settings, you are set up and protected in minutes.

Why use the service?

The data is curated by Spamhaus’ world-class Research and Engineering Team, whose principal motivation is to make the internet a safer place. Every day, 13 billion SMTP connections, 3 million domains, and 18 thousand malware samples are analysed to safeguard against malware, phishing, botnets, spam, and more.

Spamhaus’ DNSBLs are composed of continuously updated IP, Domain & Hash data which is made available using Spamhaus’ Data Query Service (DQS). As soon as a threat is identified, you are protected. This query-based service protects against the majority of spam and other email-borne threats at the SMTP gateway.

How the data is used

The current implementation is checking the DQS service during the spam filter processing along with all the other spam filter rules.  When a DQS rule matches, points are added to the overall spam score.  MDaemon allows 2 thresholds to be configured. The first flags a message as spam, the second rejects the message during the SMTP processing.

The IP address is assessed first at SMTP connect, to get rid of most of the rubbish. When an email is blocked, the sender will immediately receive a notification, ensuring that emails do not lie unread in junk folders for weeks. Anything not blocked can then be filtered by content, which is checked against our domain and hash data.

This staged email filtering process is considered best practice:

  1. Remove obvious spam sent from known botnets and spammers’ IP addresses.
  2. Detailed analysis to identify emails containing malware or links to new websites that are controlled by spammers and cybercriminals.

What Spamhaus DQS customers say:

“This [Hash Blocklist] is a game-changer. It’s the biggest single effectiveness improvement we’ve had in 10+ years, all for a simple one-off implementation.” Manager, Global Cybersecurity Software Provider

“DQS is so fast – it’s amazing. We get all these benefits for a great price.” Alcides Zanarotti Junior, UOL’s Director of Technology

“There are a lot of blocklists out there but the only one that’s ever been super trustworthy has been Spamhaus.” Tara Natanson, Manager of ISP Relations, Constant Contact.

Who can use this solution?

Any MDaemon Email Server customer can use this solution. Set up is extremely simple, and you can trial the data free for 30 days.

Pricing

User and query volume based, with prices starting as low as $250 USD per year.