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Could someone from the mail team document for us the order in which various parts of the mail processing are carried out for incoming mail? This would include:

Virus blocking
(Auto)Forwarding
Blocked Domains
Blocked Senders
SPAM processing
Vacation message
Filters
[Any others I've forgotten?]

At each stage it would be important to know whether a message that is acted upon in that stage then leaves the processing stream, or if it continues on to the next stage.

I tried to find this information on line but could not. Having this documented would allow us to answer user questions like "If I forward my mail, is it still checked for viruses and spam by MSU?" or "Will my vacation message go to every single message that is addressed to me?". I think some individual questions like this have been discussed here in the past, but the full processing sequence has never been documented.  Thanks.

--Chris
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Chris Wolf                    Computer Service Manager
Agricultural Economics        [log in to unmask]
Michigan State University     517 353-5017