Less spam in your York email
New spam filter for email accounts
CNS has implemented a new spam filter.
This filter will apply to all staff and faculty email
accounts with "userid@yorku.ca" addresses.
It will not affect mail delivered to individuals using
other departmental or Faculty email systems such as
Lotus Notes in Glendon, Osgoode, Atkinson and Schulich,
MS Exchange in Facilities Services and CSBO, and First
Class in Education.
When the filter has been activated on
your account, you will receive the following email message:
CNS has instituted a new spam filter that will move
any message tagged by the system as spam to a folder
called Yspam-found. The filter has now been activated
on your email account. This folder should be visible
from your email client, if not please contact your
local technical support group. You may also contact
the helpdesk at (416)736-2100 x55800 or helpdesk@yorku.ca
for assistance.
You should scan this folder regularly to ensure that
no email message was wrongly tagged as spam. The system
will delete messages in this folder that are older than
21 days.
Coming Soon: Personalize the Spam Filter
You will also have the option of further personalizing
the spam filter to recognize items that have been defined
as spam but that you consider to be legitimate email.
Within the next few weeks a Yspam-notspam folder
will be created for users. The Yspam-notspam folder
will be displayed in your folder list. You save email
to this folder that was delivered to your Yspam-found
folder and that you consider to be legitimate. You should
also save a copy in another folder to protect against
losing the message.
Once it is in place, the Yspam-notspam
folder will be checked nightly. The main filter will
be updated accordingly, and then the messages will be
deleted from the folder.
Please note also that SPAM ASSASSIN
has been discontinued.
Questions or concerns about the spam filter
should be directed to the CNS Helpdesk in the Computing
Commons, William Small Centre at 416-736-5800 or helpdesk@yorku.ca.
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