Patent ID: 7610342

Claim:
A dynamic email spam analysis and management system comprising: a database including a plurality of spam rules, each of the plurality of spam rules having attributes including a score; a spam analyzer operable to process a log file received from each of a plurality of message switches, each message switch processing an email against each of the plurality of spam rules thus determining if the processed email will be marked as spam, and for each match between the processed email and each of the plurality of spam rules, each message switch creating an entry in its log file corresponding to the processed email and the matching spam rule wherein each entry includes the score from each matching spam rule, the spam analyzer operable to update the attributes of at least one of the plurality of spam rules in the database, the updating including modifying the score of the at least one of the plurality of spam rules, the updating based on statistics calculated from at least one of the log files, wherein the spam analyzer is distinct from each of the plurality of message switches, and wherein each of the plurality of message switches are software being executed on one of a plurality of mail servers; and a select rules file including one or more select rules from the database of the plurality of spam rules, each of the one or more select rules being included in the select rules file based on its attributes, the select rules file being replicated to each of the message switches.