Why and how should I deal with spam and email forwarding during residency recruiting season?
Many aspects of the residency recruiting process are now being conducted exclusively by email. In particular, many time-sensitive communications, such as invitations to interviews, are handled by email. During this particularly important phase of the residency selection process, it may be helpful to take certain steps to assure that messages are delivered without diversion or delay. In particular, many students use various programs to identify possible spam messages, or to forward mail from medstudent email accounts to outside accounts. During this critical time in 4th year, you may wish to temporarily deactivate or adjust settings on those programs so as to reduce the likelihood that a message is delayed or lost. For example, the University’s Postini anti-spam software diverts messages to a holding file for your review. Messages are only held in Postini for approximately 14 days. As a temporary measure just during application season, you may wish to reduce the anti-spam settings to lo
