What is Iowa State Doing About Inbound Spam?
While stopping spam is nearly impossible, IT Services has implemented a spam detection system at Iowa State to help you manage the problem. Similar to caller-ID service on your phone, the spam detection system can help you screen out unwanted email. By comparing an email with a set of criteria, the PerlMX tagging system determines the probability that the mail is spam and denotes it accordingly with a specific tag. Then you can decide how you want to handle the mail. Many users choose to set up filters and transfer the flagged mail to its own mail folder for reviewing later. Several videos in the “Do IT” series provide step-by-step instructions for setting up filters in various email programs. These can be found at http://www.it.iastate.edu/doit/. The following documents provide details on setting up header-based filters for spam tagging. • Coping with Spam Using Apple OS X Mail • Coping with Spam Using Eudora 6 • Coping with Spam Using Microsoft Outlook 2002 • Coping with Spam Using M
