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Chris, The MSU mail team plans to reconfigure how incoming mail is handled. Certain functions now handled by one set of servers will now be split off to another set of servers, and senders to the user agent servers will need to be authenticated. This should not be visible to users. Ed Kryda of the mail team has tested this with popular mail clients and found no problems. The only expected issue is with programs such as mass mailers, and only with software that establishes an affinity with particular server IP addresses, which should not happen. Ed expects to install these changes this coming Thursday. He expects the changes will take a slice off of spam, so to speak, but not a huge chunk. The other changes the mail team is considering, such as greylisting, are down the road and promise more benefit. /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. >