How to test the actual effect of anti-spam anti-virus in the mail system

The ads on the market in the mail system are very fancy, almost all businesses are claiming that their mail system products, anti-spam anti-virus can achieve a ratio of 98%, in the end is true? Some it friends doing system integration when doing business selection, the result of testing this anti-spam function is that most of them are not up to 90%, the efficiency is mostly in 70%, and some of them are only 30% to 40% of the anti-spam efficiency. How should enterprise managers test the actual effect of anti-spam anti-virus in the mail system? Now let's analyze it together.

Test steps

1. Vendors are required to provide products for testing. If the test is not enough to meet the requirements, the credibility of the factory is very worthy of research.

2. After the system is completed, your newly registered mailbox will be fully exposed on the Internet. For example, in the replies, registration information, blogs and other social networking sites can do text input, put your test mailbox are written up, or directly with the test mailbox for user registration, of course, at this time your personal, business-related information must not be exposed. After the test is completed, as long as the test mailbox logoff, you do not have to be harassed by spam.

3. Test for 20-30 days. The time is short the sample is too few, cannot reach the test effect, must test more than one months. You can use this time to test the other functions of the messaging system, for example, now the popular mail monitoring, mail archiving, email audit, message tracking, announcements, flying mail, two development integration and so on, compare the performance of the system and the pros and cons, but also to test the stability of the system and response speed in order to do a comprehensive overall score.

4. When the deadline is up, you can go to the background to see the number of messages in the inbox of the test mailbox (and, of course, to distinguish between the spam messages and the spam count) from the system administrator's identity. The number of spam inbox receipts, the number of virus mailboxes, a relatively natural came out. If the system does not provide this data, then please think about it, since the merchant propaganda can how to anti-virus anti-spam, then why not to see the comparison results?

Turbomail mail system provides the statistic function of the above information, and can automatically crawl system data and generate statistic report. The operation process is as follows:

After the system administrator logs in, click "Statistical analysis" in the left-hand list to enter the "Mail Dispatch statistics Chart":

The following figure, you can get a clear statistical data: