The focus of establishing good anti-spam policies is to proactively mitigate spam before it arrives rather than reacting to it with steps like removing it from mailboxes. This is consistent with Microsoft’s approach of training anti-spam algorithms and creating efficiencies for users and IT professionals
Student mailboxes:
Mail policy established which limits student mailboxes to 200 recipients/hour and 600 recipients/day. Although when the policy was established, it affected accounts that had any “student type” (e.g., student employees, full time employees taking classes), refinements to the policy should only affect students who are not student employees. Note that a distribution group counts as 1 recipient. Mailboxes that exceed those limits will be blocked until the end of the day - we do not have any tools to unblock them.
Exempting students from anti-spam policy:
Add to sec.its.eis.studentantispambypass
Criteria for determining if we add students and how long they can be in the group are to be established.
Faculty/Staff mailboxes:
Anti-spam policies under development…
Exempting faculty/staff from anti-spam policy:
Add to sec.its.eis.facstaffantispambypass