Creating Client-Side Spam Filters
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Beginning on August 26, 2004, a "mail filter" will run on the server-side of Penn State's incoming e-mail servers scannng for and identifying spam. The mail will be analyzed, scored and flagged as spam based on the rules used for Penn State's e-mail servers. This mail filter will insert mail headers, as noted below.
Note: E-mail messages will not be deleted before reaching users.
ITS recommends that users add/create filters based on these rules in their client-side e-mail programs in order to filter/handle messages flagged as spam. The headers/rules are: X-PSU-Spam-Flag, X-PSU-Spam-Level, and X-PSU-Spam-Hits.
We have provided instructions on how to create client-side filters for these headers for the most common e-mail clients used here at Penn State.
- X-PSU-Spam-Flag
- X-PSU-Spam-Level
- X-PSU-Spam-Hits