A spam manager (101) receives (201) at least one e-mail (106) addressed to
a domain (103). The spam manager (101) performs (203) a signature based
analysis of received e-mail (106) to determine whether received e-mail
(106) includes at least one signature indicative of spam. Responsive to
the spam manager (101) identifying e-mail (106) that does not include at
least one signature indicative of spam and to a timeout period not having
transpired from a time of receipt of the e-mail (106) by the spam manager
(101), the spam manager (101) performs (205) at least one secondary
analysis of the identified e-mail (106).