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OA Exchange Server Email Restrictions and Filters

UF Bridges uses Microsoft Outlook as its Email client and connects to the Microsoft Exchange server (AAVP99.ADMIN.UFL.EDU) maintained by Operations Analysis at Tigert Hall. Below are the restrictions and filters applied to emails that pass through OA’s server. Emails that meet the restriction and filter criteria are quarantined on the email server. These emails can be retrieved upon request. Please contact Bridges workstation support.

Restrictions

Email size limit is 7 megabytes (7168 KB).

Filters

Sexually explicit subject lines and common misspellings used by spammers as well as a few subject lines used by popular viruses are not allowed. A complete filter list is available from Operations Analysis.

Email with the following filenames are not allowed. Current filters include:

anyuw.zip
body.zip
data.zip
doc.zip
document.zip
ERROR.msg
file.zip
hi.msg
important.zip
message.zip
psq.zip
readme.zip
est.zip
text.zip
uaqgsbn.zip
Undeliverable hi.msg
Undeliverable Test.msg
Undeliverable: hi.msg
Undeliverable: Test.msg

Email with the following file extensions are not allowed. Current filters include:

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??_
{??{????????-????-????-????-????????????}

386
AIF
AIF?
ASF
ASP
ASPX
ASX
AVI
BAS
BAT
BIN
CHM
CMD
COM
COM+
contains-virus
CPL
CRT
DEV
DL?
DRV
EML
EXE
EXE+
HLP
HTA
HTR
HTX
INF

INS
JS
JSE
JSH
JSP
JSV
JSW
LNK
M1V
M3U
MOV
MP1
MP2
MP2V
MP3
MP4
MPA
MPE
MPEG
MPEG?
MPG
MPV2
MSC
MSI
MSP
MST
NWS
OCX
OV?

PI
PIF
PIF$
PIF+
PPS
QT
RAM
REG
RM
RMJ
SCR
SCR+
SCT
SHS
SND
SWF
SYS
VB
VB?
VBS+
VXD
WAV
WAX
WM
WMA
WMV
WS?
WVX
ZIP

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