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Email spam filtering options

Beyond the annoyance of the sheer quantity of spam email that gets through the mail.sas and facstaff.sas spam filters, some pretty graphic messages make it through. This affects many mail.sas and facstaff.sas users, including the Penn Biology Computing Support staff!

Successful filtering requires a two-tiered approach: filtering before the email gets to your mail.sas or facstaff.sas Inbox; and, secondly, filtering after the email is pulled into your mail application (e.g., Eudora, Apple Mail, Mozilla).

This will not yield 100% perfect results, but both approaches help clean up a majority of the problematic email you will encounter.

Configuring your mail.sas and facstaff.sas account spam filter

Your mail.sas or facstaff.sas account can be configured to automatically filter spam messages.

For instructions on how to enable server-side filtering (filtering before the email gets to your Inbox), please visit this page:

Configuring your email client's junk mail filter

Current versions of Penn Biology-supported email applications now include junk/spam email filters. Generally these are turned off by default, as they require the end user to be involved with the training or tuning steps.

These filters can easily remove genuine, non-spam messages, so it is very important to keep an eye on what is being filtered and adjust the training and tuning of these applications accordingly, so that you do not inadvertently lose any messages. Please read the following instructions carefully, and ask us questions if you are unclear about the purpose of any setting change.

The pages below contain instructions on how to properly train and then automate the spam/junk mail filter for the following Penn Biology-supported email clients:

 Last modified August 23 2007 12:46:50