# Spam and virus detection in emails
With MailSlurp you can scan emails for vulnerabilities, spam, and viruses. You can do so using the API or the dashboard.
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To view email anaylsis in the dashboard see our receiving email section (opens new window).
# Available reports
MailSlurp uses AWS SES email scanning technologies to analyse inbound emails. The following properties are available:
For each field results can be either PASS, GREY, or FAIL.
NOTE MailSlurp does not prevent emails from being sent or received that fail these tests. The detections are only for your own use and analysis. You can choose how to handle the results.
# Spam verdict
How likely is an email to trigger spam filters.
# Virus and vulnerabilities
Does the email content or attachments contain a probable virus.
# SPF verdict (Send policy framework)
Detect sender email address forgery using the sender policy framework (opens new window).
# DKIM or DomainKeys Identified Mail
DKIM is a way to authenticate an email sender based on DNS records for the sender's domain. This can be configured in MailSlurp using custom domains.
# DMARC Domain-based Message Authentication
Another authentication protocol supported by custom
# Validating emails using the API
You can use the MailSlurp REST API (opens new window) or any one of the MailSlurp SDKs to verfiy email content and attachments.
By requesting an email by it's ID via /emails/{emailId} the response contains an analysis property with a value for each field. The response looks like so:
See the API documentation for more information.
