SysBlog - Div III Networks - “what’s happening in our local ether”

Wondering what’s up with the mail marked as spam, some of which still gets into your Groupwise inbox? According to an email from ITS,

“The new subject prefixes [**spam**] and [**phish**] are being added by the McAfee virus protection appliances. The latest software update on these appliances incorporated a fee-free implementation of SpamKiller. Right now we have configured the McAfee appliances to merely add the spam scoring information to the headers and to prefix messages it identifies as spam. They are not taking any blocking action on messages based on spam content.

The MessageScreen anti-spam appliances are the next stop for messages. Several new rules have been added to look for SpamKiller scores and to take appropriate action. SpamKiller is much better at identifying image based spam for instance. However, MessageScreen will still honor user trusted sender lists and will deliver messages from trusted senders and domains no matter what the content. This explains why some messages arrive in your mailbox with the spam/phish prefixes.”