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Chris, I agree with you that processing spam before forwarding would be a beneficial change. There's definitely a good size of the mail.msu.edu users that are setting up filters to do so, which is a known issue of confusion. Unfortunately our current architecture wouldn't allow this to be a straight forward change. Your suggestion is on our list of possible future enhancements. Thanks, Ed Chris Wolf writes: > Okay, thanks, I'll look forward to that. > > One change that might help us would be to put mail through the spam > processing before auto-forwarding is done. Not knowing the architecture of > the system, I don't know if this would be a straightforward change or a > major change. Right now the only way for a user to accomplish this is to > create a filter to forward mail, which is a little complicated for some > users to do. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Richard Wiggins [mailto:[log in to unmask]] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 7:50 PM >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] MSU Spam Handling >> >> The mail team is constantly evaluating approaches to >> improving spam filtering. Yes, they have a specific >> improvement they hope to launch as soon as a week from >> Thursday. This particular improvement should not be >> user-visible, unless someone is using a mail client or a >> mailer that associates itself with the IP address of one of >> mail.msu.edu's servers, which it should not do. We're >> working on an announcement. >> >> /rich >> >> On 12/20/06, Chris Wolf <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> > I've been told that the MSU mail team is planning an upgrade of the >> > anti-spam system. Can someone give us a preview of what the plans >> > are, what will be different for users, and when this might >> happen? Thanks. >> > >> >> >