A&M Email Scanning

All incoming e-mail to Texas A&M is scanned for malicious e-mail as well as SPAM.

Some functions are behind the scenes and some will be more noticeable.  The current SPAM filter used by A&M is Proofpoint.

This service

  • evaluates email to determine how likely it is SPAM.  Depending on its score, it can be blocked entirely, quarantined with a note sent on to the recipient to determine if it should be forwarded, or nothing.
  • Web links within email are also evaluated.  If the message is not blocked, the link will be wrapped within a link to urldefance.proofpoint.com which will evaluate the link a 2nd time and if it passes will allow the link to go through seemlessly.  If the link is determined to be malicious, a message will be displayed.

For additional details see http://infrastructure.tamu.edu/message/email/relays.html

 

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