Sign Up for Email Spam Filtering Service

UWM offers campus constituents a service that scans incoming email to filter out virus and spam messages. This is a core technology service available to all UWM faculty, staff and students who have email delivered to the central UWM email system (i.e., to “@uwm.edu” email addresses). This service provides the campus with tools to significantly reduce the amount of spam and viruses in email inboxes. Virus scanning and filtering is done automatically. To use the spam filtering service, however, you must sign up for it.

To sign up for spam filtering, point your browser to www.epanther.uwm.edu/email and select “Spam filtering preferences.” This option requests that spam addressed to you be automatically stored in a personal folder named SPAM instead of your inbox.

When you wish, you can look at the messages in your SPAM folder with PantherMail or any IMAP email client. Messages will remain in your SPAM folder for a minimum of four weeks. Once each week, SPAM messages more than four weeks old will be automatically deleted from your SPAM folder. Space used by the SPAM folder will not count against your email storage quota.

For more information on this service, please see www.imt.uwm.edu/Info/email-scan-filter.html.

Why am I getting all this spam?
The Center for Democracy and Technology has released a report that includes information on the source of spam and some sound advice on how to avoid it. The complete report is on the Web at www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml.

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