Anti-Spam Measures Affect IMAP Users

By Dr. Philip Baczewski, Associate Director of Academic Computing

If you frequently read mail in your UNT E-mailbox via a non-UNT Internet service, please pay careful attention to the information below.

SPAM (unsolicited mail flooding servers) has become a major problem with mail systems.  To protect you and others from this problem, we are implementing several measures to eliminate the use of UNT systems to transfer SPAM mail. These changes will be applied to imap.unt.edu on 4/20/98.

This has a possible side effect for non-UNT ISP users that can be easily remedied by changing some settings in your mail configuration options. If you are using a non-UNT ISP and using imap.unt.edu as your outgoing mail server, you will not be able to send mail to non-UNT Internet addresses.

To configure your software to be able to send your UNT E-Mail from a "foreign" ISP you only need to change the setting for the outgoing mail server to be your ISP's mail server instead of UNT's (probably currently set to imap.unt.edu). For more information about making this change in various IMAP mail clients see: http://www.unt.edu/ACSUNIX/services/E-mail/mailserver.html

Any questions about this change can be addressed to helpdesk@unt.edu (940-565-2324). n