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Dak,

This is somewhat interesting because the central MSU email system has been using SpamAssassin for many years.  (since the cut-over from Pilot email, I think).

It would be interesting to compare the settings that Music is using, versus the settings on msu.edu.

Are you sure the people that are getting so much spam thru msu.edu have gone into Preferences and picked an option to throw away spam?  I think letting everything thru is still the default setting.

My email address is very old (ie, it is probably on many spammer's lists) and I only get a few spam per day thru msu.edu.

-John
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On July 1, at 11:49 AM July 1, Dak Aldrich wrote:

Ya know, Matrix is running SpamAssassin before our email server.  Do you

know that I have NEVER ONCE gotten one of these emails?  Unfortunately, we

can't afford to have all Music faculty on our exchange system, yet. So... Of

course, they keep getting them and like... Well... Some users... They

actually send the info.  So far, we've caught it before anything happens,

and are able to change the password.


I've noticed that a lot of users are getting a lot of spam that I do not.

Is there any plan to look at or consider a change to the spam filtering or

the entire system that MSU uses?  Honestly, I don't think I could handle

using my MSU account these days with all the crap others are getting.  I get

MAYBE 6 or 7 spam a week with our setup.  And I've got MSU users that are

getting 50 a day.


Just curious.


-dak

-Network Admin

-College of Music, MSU