Procedure

1. Go to Sender Filtering → Rules.
   The Rules screen appears with five tabs, one for each type of threat.
2. Click the Spam tab.
   The Spam screen appears.
3. Select the Enable check box to enable blocking of spam.
4. Specify a value for the following:
   • Duration to monitor: The number of hours that IMSVA monitors email traffic to see if the percentage of spam messages exceeds the threshold you set.
   • Rate (%): The maximum number of allowable messages with spam threats.
   • Total messages: The total number of spam messages out of which the threshold percentage is calculated.
   Consider the following example:

   Duration to monitor: 1 hour at a rate of 20 out of 100.

   During each one-hour period that spam blocking is active, IMSVA starts blocking IP addresses when more than 20% of the messages it receives contain spam and the total number of messages exceeds 100.
5. Next to Triggering action, select one of the following:
   • Block temporarily: Block messages from the IP address temporarily and allow the upstream MTA to try again after the block duration ends.
   • Block permanently: Never allow another message from the IP address and do not allow the upstream MTA to try again.
6. Optional: If you select Block temporarily, specify the block duration.
7. Click Save.