Exchange Interoperability: Inbox Rules and Spam Filtering

MSDN Library Topics
The following MSDN library topics pertain directly to inbox rules and spam filtering.

• Microsoft.Exchange.Data Managed APIs Architecture
  Describes APIs from the Transport Agents SDK that are relevant to the mailbox and other structures.
• Microsoft.NET Namespaces for Exchange
  Provides a brief introduction and links to specific topics about Microsoft.Exchange namespace group.
• Outlook Object Model Reference
  Explains how the Outlook OM may be used to create client side rules.
• Working with Inbox rules by using the EWS Managed API
  Provides a brief introduction and links to specific topics about rules in Exchange Web Services (EWS) client API.
• Inbox Rules
  Introduces rules in Exchange Web Services (EWS).
• Exchange Rules Evaluation Criteria
  Discusses COM-based rules in Exchange 2007.
• Exchange Rules
  Describes functional and development criteria for creating and managing Rules.

SDKs
The following SDKs pertain to this module.

• Exchange Server 2010 SP2 Web Services SDK
  Introduces the Exchange Web Services (EWS) SDK.
• Exchange Web Services Managed API 1.2 SDK
  Introduces the Exchange Web Services (EWS) client API SDK.

Technical Articles
The following technical articles deal with advanced interoperability applications.

• Provisioning, policies, remote wipe, and the Allow/Block/Quarantine list in Exchange ActiveSync
  Explains how to manage security settings, and manage a client device's access to mailbox data.

Open Specifications
The following open specification documents describe Exchange internal protocols and file formats that pertain to the areas of functionality described in this module.

• MS-OXPROTO
  Provides a complete list of Exchange protocols, sorted by feature area.
• Exchange Server Protocol Documents
  Provides a list of all the protocol and other technology specifications in the documentation set.
• [MS-OXCSPAM]: Spam Confidence Level Protocol
  Enables the handling of allow/block lists and the determination of junk e-mail messages.
• [MS-OXPHISH]: Phishing Warning Protocol
  Identifies and marks e-mail messages that are designed to trick recipients into divulging sensitive information (such as passwords and/or other personal information) to a non-trustworthy source.
• [MS-OXPSVAL]: E-Mail Postmark Validation Algorithm
  Creates and validates computational puzzles to reduce the effectiveness of junk e-mail.
• [MS-OXORULE]: E-Mail Rules Protocol
  Enables the manipulation of incoming and outgoing e-mail messages on a server.
• [MS-OXWSRULES]: Inbox Rules Web Service Protocol
  Enables clients to get Inbox rules and update Inbox rules for messages on the server.