Spam/e-Abuse

Is spam arriving in your Inbox?

For more information about spam and how you can enable filtering to limit unwanted emails sent to your Inbox, please read this article.

Spam can be unwanted advertisements, chain letters, scams or attempts to compromise your computer or your privacy.  Spam email has the following characteristics:

• Identical or nearly identical messages are sent to a large number of recipients (typically 25 or more, often thousands).
• The recipients have not granted deliberate, explicit, and still-revocable permission for the messages to be sent.
• The transmission and reception of the messages appear to the recipients to give a disproportionate benefit to the sender.

In addition to the filtering options we've offered in the past, we've added Sophos PureMessage anti-spam software. Messages that the software identifies as spam will include additional headers to allow for filtering those messages either to a JUNK or Trash folder and will have the subject altered to include {SPAM?}.

You can set up email filters to limit unwanted emails sent to your account by visiting our Email Account Manager .

Please note: If you read your e-mail on one of the departmental or college e-mail servers, or forward your e-mail to an off-campus site, your e-mail may not be filtered for spam. If you receive messages tagged by SpamAssassin, and your e-mail client is capable of filtering, you may wish to configure it to do some filtering for you.

If you wish to pursue this, please read Configuring an e-mail client to filter spam .

Note: If you believe someone is mis-using your e-mail account, for example, forging e-mail from you or sending you unwanted messages other than spam, or to learn more about e-abuse and Spam, please visit our Network Security e-abuse pages.