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By Tom McElwee, Enterprise Systems
Technical Service Director
Inboxes for faculty, staff and students
using GroupWise and Eaglemail should now have considerably fewer "bulk"
messages thanks to Ironport, a new anti-spam/anti-virus software system
installed Tuesday, November 13 by the Computing and Information Technology
Center.
The system was implemented as part of CITC's ongoing efforts to provide
top-quality computing services to campus, and to stem the ever
increasing amount of spam reaching campus inboxes that has become a
distraction.
Ironport is designed to identify spam messages and to quarantine them,
avoiding their delivery to a user's inbox. It also detects virus e-mail
messages and discards them before they reach inboxes.
Users can review a list of quarantined messages filtered by Ironport for
up to 15 days after the intended delivery. Simply go to
http://spam.unt.edu and log in
with your EUID and password. If a legitimate e-mail message was
quarantined, simply tell the system to release the message for delivery.
If you receive a spam message in your regular inbox, you can forward it
to spam@access.ironport.com
and Ironport will tweak their spam detecting rules to block that kind of
message in the future.
Learn more about the system at
InHouse.
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