Spam Filtering
(Also known as: Postini, Email: Spam Filtering, Junk Email Filtering)
Eligible: Instructors, Physicians, Staff, Students, Researchers, IT Professionals
Availability: 24 Hours, Daily
Support: Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
(see Request Assistance for after-hours)
Spam Filtering is a service that scrutinizes email, attempting to protect the user from receiving spam mail.
Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems, the act of sending unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.
The primary spam filtering service offered at Emory is Postini, hosted by Google. Postini is an enterprise anti-spam and anti-virus message management solution for all external mail coming into Emory. It can be used with email, instant messaging, web filtering, and security.
It can also be used with a variety of compliance applications including message archiving, encryption, and policy enforcement. Currently, only internal email spam generated on campus is not scanned by this service.
To login to the Spam Filtering Message Center:
1. Go to: https://enid.emory.edu/myaccount
2. When the login screen appears, enter your Emory Network ID and password.
3. When the Network Account screen appears, look for the link: Login to
Spam/Anti-Virus Service. You will be immediately logged into the Message Center.
Benefits
Provides Spam and Virus Scanning: Protects email service from the 90% of messages that are spam
Manages Polices: Provides the ability to manage policies at organization, group, and user levels
Integrates with Infrastructure: Integrates with existing LDAP infrastructure and manages user access
Features / Options
| Capability to set Strength Level 1-5 | Option to set strength level 1-5 | |
| Email Security | Secure email from external threats such as spam, viruses, phishing, and malware | |
| Web Security | Protection from web-borne malware, viruses and phishing | |
| Review of Quarantined Email | Quarantined email not automatically deleted can be reviewed | |
| Black Lists Setting | Blocks all email that comes from certain servers on the Internet that have been identified as spam generating | |
| White List Setting | Requires that senders authenticate their identity prior to email delivery to a recipient | |
Costs
No additional cost
