Campus Computing News

Using GroupWise* to manage "BULK:" mail

By Jason Gutierrez, Network Computing Services, GroupWise Support Team

Earlier this year UNT's Network Computing Services (a division of the Computing and Information Technology Center, CITC) implemented a Spam filter that tags email as "BULK:" based on certain criteria. This junk mail filter, SpamAssassin, has had a tremendous impact on determining which individual message could be unsolicited junk mail. For instance, SpamAssassin scanned over 1/2 million email messages during the first week of the semester and identified 52% of those as spam. SpamAssassin then marked each message in the subject line as "BULK:" followed by the messages original subject line.

Now that messages are marked as "BULK:", a GroupWise rule can be created to automatically delete these messages or move them into another folder to be viewed later. The instructions for creating a "BULK:" email rule can be found on the NCS website at http://ncs.unt.edu/rules/spam_rule.html.

Learn more about GroupWise now

If you are interested in knowing more about creating rules and becoming more productive with GroupWise, I encourage you to sign up for the next GroupWise class being held on the 21st or the 23rd of this month in the Eagle Student Services Center room 152. To sign up please call Melanie Betterson in Human Resources at x4246 and let her know which day you would like to sign up for. For more information on what will be covered in this class, consult our website at http://ncs.unt.edu/gw/basicgroupwise/description/index.html#basicC2

* For EagleMail users, see "Protecting Your EagleMail Account from Spam."

Randy Cassingham's "Spam Primmer" can give you lots more information about Spam and ways to combat it (maybe).

Finally, for a little levity, you can sing along with Monty Python and the "Spam Song."