What is the Spam Scanning Service Policy?

1. Spam scanning is an opt-out service for users who set their mailhub mail service to store
2. Users who set spam scanning to "enabled" will have their mail scanned even if they later choose to forward their mail
3. Users who set spam scanning to "disabled" will not have it turned on automatically even if they switch out of and then back to "store"
4. Users who set their service to "forward" are auto-disabled unless they have already explicitly enabled spam scanning
5. @lists.purdue.edu are automatically enabled

1. Mail coming into @purdue.edu will be spam scanned if the recipient has spam scanning enabled
2. Exceptions to #1 include mail sent from the ITaP webmail client, the ITaP Exchange server, the Purdue Business Mail server, and messages sent by SMTP authenticated users
3. Messages above 2M in size are not spam scanned

1. Messages scoring above 50% are quarantined by the spam scanner
2. Quarantined messages and their corresponding digests are kept for only 10 days
3. Digests of newly quarantined messages are sent daily
4. Individual quarantines can be accessed at any time via the web interface (https://spamq.purdue.edu)

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