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Measures reported by SenderFilterAgTest
The Sender Filter agent is an anti-spam filter that is enabled on computers that have the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Edge Transport server role installed. The Sender Filter agent relies on the MAIL FROM: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) header to determine what action, if any, to take on an inbound e-mail message.
The Sender Filter agent acts on messages from specific senders outside the organization. Administrators of Edge Transport servers maintain a list of senders who are blocked from sending messages to the organization. As an administrator, you can block single senders (kim@contoso.com), whole domains (*@.contoso.com), or domains and all subdomains (*@*.contoso.com). You can also configure what action the Sender Filter agent should take when a message that has a blocked sender is found.
Using this test, administrators can determine the overall health and effectiveness of the Sender Filter agent's operations.
The measures
made by this test are as
follows:
| Measurement |
Description |
Measurement
Unit |
Interpretation |
| Messages_evaluated_rate |
Indicates the number of messages evaluated by the Sender Filter agent per second. |
Msgs/Sec |
This is a good measure of the agent's processing ability.
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| Messages_filtered_rate |
Indicates the number of messages filtered by the Sender Filter agent per second. |
Msgs/Sec |
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