Spam Filtering enabled on Drew e-mail by default

Effective Tuesday October 3rd, we will enable spam filtering on all Drew e-mail addresses by default. Over the past few months, many internet service providers such as AOL have enacted stricter policies regarding junk e-mail. Increasingly Drew is finding that sites such as AOL, Verizon and others will temporarily reject any e-mail sent from Drew because individuals at Drew are forwarding their Drew e-mail to another address with some of the forwarded e-mail being spam.

For more than two years, CNS has offered opt-in spam filtering for Drew e-mail address (see our May 4, 2004 announcement at http://depts.drew.edu/cns/news/20040504-spam.php ). This change will have no impact on those who have previously enabled spam filtering, but for those who never enabled spam filtering, this means you will notice a significant reduction in the amount of spam you receive. You will also receive a report via e-mail every morning that shows any e-mail messages blocked by the spam filter. You should review that report in case any legitimate e-mail messages were blocked to the quarantine area. Blocked messages can be released from quarantine by clicking on a link in the report.

You can read more about Drew's spam filtering at http://depts.drew.edu/its/docs/internet/email/spam/index.php. If you wish to disable spam filtering on your Drew e-mail address, you can do so through the web interface ( http://spam.drew.edu ).

In the future, the junk mail policies implemented by other ISPs may force us to disallow or strictly limit the ability to set mail forwarding on your Drew e-mail address. For now, though, we are hoping that enabling spam filtering on all Drew e-mail addresses will minimize this problem.

If you have questions or encounter difficulties changing spam filtering settings, please contact the CNS Helpdesk (x3205) for assistance.