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Friday August 2nd, 2013

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Spam Filtering

To take full advantage of campus anti-spam efforts, you must set up spam filters to move messages marked as spam from your Inbox to a spam folder. No automated technique can determine with 100% accuracy if a message is spam. Check your spam folder periodically for legitimate messages that were incorrectly marked as spam, as well as to delete the actual spam.

We have two methods to help you filter spam from your Inbox into a separate folder.

Option 1: MailBox Services - My Email Options

To take full advantage of campus anti-spam efforts, you must set up spam filters to move messages marked as spam from your Inbox to a spam folder. No automated technique can determine with 100% accuracy if a message is spam. Check your spam folder periodically for legitimate messages that were incorrectly marked as spam, as well as to delete the actual spam.

This feature is available to you if:

  1. You use MailBox Services, AND
  2. You use Webmail to read your email, OR
  3. You use an email program that receives incoming mail from "imap.uci.edu".
    If you use "pop.uci.edu", this method will not work. Use the Advanced method below.

Setting Up "My Email Options" to filter spam.

  1. Login to My Email Options with your UCInetID and password.
  2. Click the Spam Filtering tab.
  3. Turn ON the spam filter with the Default or Strict settings.
  4. Click the Submit button.
  5. Spam will now be filtered to a special "spam" folder. You may need to "subscribe" to this folder if your email software does not do this automatically. OIT will automatically delete filtered spam older than 3 months.

Option 2: Advanced Spam Filtering

If you want greater flexibility in setting your spam filtering, you will need to configure your email program to use UCI's spam filters. Most email programs like Pine, Outlook, Eudora, or Netscape allow you to create filters or rules to automatically move messages flagged as spam to specific folders or to delete them. The latest versions of Eudora, Netscape/Mozilla mail and Mail (OS X) also have built in spam filters.

Note: Advanced spam filtering will not work in Webmail or Outlook Express. You will either have to use one of the supported programs below or use "My Email Options" (OIT Mailbox Accounts Only).

Windows Macintosh Unix
Thunderbird Thunderbird  
Outlook Apple Mail  
Outlook Express (Use "My Email Options"-- OIT Mailbox Accounts only) Microsoft Entourage  
Webmail (Use "My Email Options"-- OIT Mailbox Accounts only) Webmail (Use "My Email Options"-- OIT Mailbox Accounts only) Webmail (Use "My Email Options"-- OIT Mailbox Accounts only)