How does this new mail system help reduce spam?
A. The new mail system helps to reduce spam in two ways. First, your email domain changes from mail.sandi.net to sandi.net which gives users a “fresh start” with regard to their email addresses. Second, we’ve installed advanced spam and virus filtering technologies in our data center. Here’s a brief overview of what IT is doing to help: Messages from the Internet: Messages coming from the Internet are filtered by our gateway spam filtering appliances. These devices check for the most common type of SPAM, like messages coming from servers that are known to send spam and messages containing certain keywords that appeart to be “phishing” for user information. At this layer all incoming messages are passed through a virus scanning engine and all infected messages are rejected. Messages within OWA/Exchange: Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 provides advanced server-side message filtering designed to combat the influx of unsolicited commercial e-mail, also known as spam or junk e-mail. Based on
