What if the Palomar College SPAM firewall isn 100% sure an email message is spam?
After an email message goes through its layers of tests, the SPAM Firewall assigns it a spam probability number. If the firewall is 100% sure the email message is spam, it will be blocked. You’ll never see blocked messages so you won’t have to waste your time sifting through these spam messages. When the firewall is about 50%-99% sure a message is spam, it will quarantine the message. Quarantined messages are saved on the Barracuda firewall for your review. If the firewall is less than 50% sure a message is spam, it will tag the message by adding “[BULK]” to the subject line and deliver the message. A good example of an uncertain message might be an email from Amazon. The Barracuda sometimes has a difficult time knowing whether an email from Amazon.com is a receipt of purchase or an advertisement.
