Protecting the University’s email is a multi-layered process, in which each incoming message is analyzed multiple times before it reaches your mailbox.  Those messages that can be definitively identified as spam, phishing, or malware-laden are blocked in the infrastructure.  The rest of the messages are sent on to your mailbox provider where they may be analyzed further, before arriving in your mailbox where you may apply additional rules and filtering Proofpoint Enterprise Protection To protect University of Washington from virus … Continue reading How email filtering works