Message flood protection
The convenience offered by MM1 and MM4 messaging can be abused by users sending spam or attempting to overload the network with an excess of messages. MMS flood prevention can help prevent this type of abuse.
Overview
Setting message flood thresholds
Notifying administrators of floods
Example — three flood threshold levels with different actions for each threshold
Notifying message flood senders and receivers
Viewing DLP archived messages
Order of operations: flood checking before duplicate checking
Bypassing message flood protection based on user’s carrier endpoints
Configuring message flood detection
Sending administrator alert notifications
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