Spam scoring for incoming e-mail
In an ongoing effort to reduce the amount of unwanted, unsolicited e-mail, Academic Services and Emerging Technologies (ASET), a unit of Information Technology Services (ITS), will activate spam scoring on incoming e-mail going through psu.edu on Thursday, August 26. This latest effort marks an addition to the current spam filtering methods, started during fall 2003, to combat spam. On the server-side a "mail filter" will run on Penn State's incoming e-mail servers to scan for and identify spam. The mail will be analyzed, scored and flagged as spam per the rules used for Penn State's e-mail servers. This mail filter will insert mail headers, as noted below, in order to explain the results of the spam filtering. Users may add/create filters based on these rules to client-side e-mail programs in order to filter/handle messages flagged as spam. NOTE: E-mail messages will not be deleted before reaching users.
The headers/rules are:
- X-PSU-Spam-Level
- X-PSU-Spam-Flag
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X-PSU-Spam-Hits
Details about the headers/rules and resources are found at: http://aset.its.psu.edu/announcements/spamfilter_update_new.html
Please also note that spam filtering also will occur on WebMail as of Friday, August 27. We'll send out a notification and we will have a link to a posting on the details about how spam will be filtered for WebMail from WebMail's splash screen.
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