EPA Design Objectives

• Control and manage all domain e-mail traffic - Internet inbound & outbound, intranet/LAN internal.
  
  
• Uniform functionality in all domain types - organizational & enterprise & ISP & ESP & personal.
  
  
• Uniform functionality and operation across all e-mail platforms.
  
  
• Accurate, reliable, unambigous filtering tests and results.
  
  
• Mailbox-localized, individual definition of filtering criteria.
  
  
• Increase automated post-reception & pre-transmission & post-transmission e-mail processing capabilities.
  
  
• Easily understood and applied.
  
  
• Scaleable to serve the needs of organizations and individuals.
  
  
• Unobtrusive integration into existing and future e-mail software.
  
  
• Standardized functional foundation for extension, enhancement, embelishment.
  
  
• Reduce costs of manual e-mail processing.
  
  
• Uniform functionality and operation across all e-mail platforms.
  
  
• Process accountability via message traffic processing records and filtering criteria history.
  
  
• Limit functionality to filtering, classification and post-classification process selection
  
  
• Open-ended for additional parallel and daisy-chained functionaility supplied by other processes.
  
  
• Accomodate all natural languages
  
  
• Accomodate all standard-defined code/glyph sets
  
  
• Minimize required user documentation, education and support.
  
  
• Maximize component reuseability of all software, education and documentation components.
  
  
• Minimize System/E-Mail Administrator’s installation and operational task load.