Distributed layer-3 e-mail classification for spam control

• Main Authors: Marsono, Muhammad N., El-Kharashi, M. Watheq, Gebali, Fayez, Ganti, Sudhakar
• Format: Book Section
• Published: IEEE Explore 2007
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/17110/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2006.277810
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

This paper proposes a distributed layer-3 e-mail classification for spam control. E-mail packets are inferred in transit and tagged with an intra-packet spam score to indicate whether the packet forms a legitimate or spam e-mail. During e-mail packet reassembly, tags for an e-mail are aggregated to...