Re: Rules settings in server

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From: GFowl (GFowl_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:53:03 -0800

Did the Mimesweeper solution work. I wnat to do the exact same thing?

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:30:51 +0800, "Arcto" <arcto@aaaaa.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >We are using Exchange 2000 server on Windows 2000 server, with clients using
> >Outlook 2000 under Windows 2000 Prof.
> >Recently we have setup new firewall and it has filters for spam mail
> >messages. Mail messages found to be spammed messages will be tagged a
> >specific pattern in the subject, such as **SPAM**.
> >
> >Is there any way to setup rules and folders in each of the user's mailbox so
> >that tagged messages can go into a specific folder for the user to check
> >later? Also we'll like to setup an autoarchive option to have the items
> >older than 30 days to be cleaned out. Can this be done on the server side?
> >Reasons are
> >(1) we have more than 300 mail users and setting them up individually would
> >cause a lot of time. Also users might have setup the rules and / or folder
> >incorrectly thus making more calls to support desk
> >(2) half of the users are remote and they can only check mail via Outlook
> >Web Access. In our version there isn't any place for them to setup rules by
> >themselves
> >
> >Greatly appreciate if you have any idea of how to go around with this.
> >
> >Thanks a lot.
> >
>
> You haven't got any server or client application that processes spam
> messages so you need to remedy that. Your anti spam software should
> ideally work WITH Exchange to tag messages and then hand it off into
> Exchange with an instruction to place the software in a specific
> folder. Most of the Exchange 2000 era packages (mimesweeper for one)
> does that for you. The user can delete the folder but the next spam
> message will regenerate the folder and populate it with the message.
>
> As far as purging (I can't see the point of archiving messages that
> have bene in a spam folder for 30 days) you can simply create a
> Recipient Policy in Exchange SYstem Manager. That will not have the
> spam folder in the available list but you can create a record with the
> same name and then tick it. That will apply the filter to any folders
> it finds in the mailboxes that match the name.
>

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