What is PureMessage?
PureMessage is a new e-mail service that blocks virus-infected messages and flags spam. You get it automatically with the new e-mail system.It’s a tool from ActiveState that works at the level of CIT’s e-mail servers and enables CIT to continue its policy of not routinely monitoring an individual’s communications. • Virus-blocking: With PureMessage, virus-infected messages are not delivered. CIT will notify you when this happens. (Note: You’ll still need to keep anti-virus software running on your computer to block viruses that travel by some route other than e-mail.) • Spam flagging and blocking: PureMessage adds a special tag to the Subject line (and an extra header line) to messages which it determines are probably spam. If the probability is over 90%, the message is blocked. If the probability is less than 90%, the message is delivered to you; the subject line and the extra header make it easy to set up Eudora, or other e-mail software, to automatically send spam to the trash or an
PureMessage is a mail-filtering program that WMU is now using. All e-mail sent to firstname.lastname@wmich.edu addresses passes through the PureMessage server.The PureMessage software first scans each message to make sure there aren’t any viruses and then follows a set of rules to look for certain characteristics to determine what to do with the e-mail message.
Related Questions
- How does the PureMessage software decide what messages to send to the Quarantine site and which messages to send to my Inbox?
- I have a central.uh.edu or mail.uh.edu account, but I am not receiving PureMessage Quarantine Digest Messages. Why not?
- How do I know if my mail utilizes the PureMessage services?
