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Using the new email spam filter

Information Technology has installed a new spam filter, which cuts down on unwanted email. Suspect messages are not deleted but are put in quarantine, from which you can retrieve messages that are not in fact spam. Use whitelists and blacklists to further control whom you receive email from.

Retrieving quarantined messages:

You will receive an email message containing the sender and subject line of each quarantined message. To retrieve one of these messages, follow these instructions:

Quarantined messages will be held on the server for fourteen days, after which they will be deleted.

Using whitelists and blacklists:

A whitelist is a list of email addresses from which you always wish to receive messages, regardless of content. A blacklist is a list of email addresses from which you never wish to receive messages.

To set this up, send an email to the address spamhunter@lakeforest.edu
In the body of the email, include one or more of the following lines:
      WHITELIST: email address
      e.g. WHITELIST: mom@aol.com
      BLACKLIST: email address
      e.g. BLACKLIST: ex-spouse@yahoo.com

Punctuation is important. The colon after WHITELIST or BLACKLIST must be there.

Check the contents of your lists by sending an email to spamhunter and including this in the body: REVIEW

Remove any address from your whitelist or blacklist by sending an email to spamhunter and including one or more of these commands:
      UNWHITELIST: email address you wish to remove from whitelist
      UNBLACKLIST: email address you wish to remove from blacklist

After you send any of these commands to spamhunter, you will receive a confirmation message back. You must return the confirmation message without altering it in any way (just use "reply" and "send").

Contact Marylin Bell at bell@lakeforest.edu for assistance retrieving quarantined messages and setting up whitelists and blacklists.

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