On 8/10/2010 12:21 PM, Aldrich, Dak wrote:
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Re: [MSUNAG] Email issues on campus... Really an issue?
Ok. I guess I’m kinda confused about this.
So, the MSU mail system will block things sent to an MSU account that
it recognizes as phishing attempts. Is that correct?
Short answer, yes. Long answer, it's like you said, "that it recognizes
as phishing attempts." Most of the signatures are based off of scam
URLs and fake email addresses. If the phish doesn't contain what it
(SaneSecurity) already knows, then it will get through.
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My next question is, does it do the filtering even if mail is forwarded
from an MSU account to another account?
Anything that comes
from a non-mail.msu.edu server (i.e. music.msu.edu, gmail.com, etc.) is
going to go through our ClamAV and SpamAssassin filtering. The message
comes into our system, it scans the message and passes it onto either
the @msu.edu user's mailbox, or forwards it elsewhere (if it didn't
first reject it outright).
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My mail is on our music server, but this particular was sent to my [log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask] account, and
obviously not blocked. However, if forwarding bypasses the filtering,
I can see why that would have been allowed to get to me.
Would you mind sending
a copy of the message with full headers to postmaster@? Thanks!
./brm