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NACS employs many techniques to maximize the quality of the campus email system, and in particular to limit the amount of junk email (spam) faculty and staff receive. Known spam senders are automatically blocked, for example, and campus mail gateways require adherence to email standards (which spammers often ignore) before email is accepted for delivery.
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Daily Spam (red) and other Email (blue)
In 2008, UCI email readers were spared almost one billion spam messages which were blocked by the NACS spam-mitigation system prior to delivery. This represents more than 21,000 messages for each faculty, staff, and student at UCI last year.
Of the messages accepted for delivery, 12 million were labeled as [...]
During the last academic year, NACS made a number of enhancements to the central campus email service.
The most important changes were implemented to improve performance and responsiveness of the email system, including the Webmail interface.
One of those changes was the format in which email was stored (the “mix mailbox format” from the University of Washington) [...]
Unsolicited, unwelcome, and sometimes offensive commercial email — “spam” — continues to plague the world’s electronic mail users. Here at UCI, NACS began regularly filtering inbound electronic mail nearly two years ago in an effort to catch and label spam, rendering it easily identifiable by end users. NACS runs the SpamAssassin software on the campus [...]
Continuing our efforts to keep the UCI campus network a safe and productive environment, NACS has extended its virus blocking and spam labeling (”tagging”) services. Originally limited to the primary campus mail servers (which process email addressed to users “@uci.edu”), these services are now in operation on our central email systems: EA, E4E, pop.uci.edu, imap.uci.edu, [...]
For those of you tired of spending 1/3 of your time with your e-mail deleting unwelcome advertising and other invitations, there is a new feature of the campus e-mail service which will help.
NACS has recently deployed SpamAssassin on the campus mail routers, which scans all incoming mail for telltale signs that a message may be [...]