Student finds solution to unwanted spam
Too much spam? One Brigham City Extension student has the solution.
James Elmer, a business administration major, was one of many students tired of receiving spam mail to his USU e-mail account, principally spam mail including pornographic content, Elmer said. Then, out of happenstance, Elmer stumbled upon a solution.
“It was easier for me to check one account instead of two, so I just forwarded my cc.usu.edu account to my Yahoo! account,” Elmer said.
Elmer said he then found, under the Yahoo! mail options, that he could send all spam mail to a bulk mail folder that is deleted immediately.
“I haven’t received any pornographic e-mails since,” Elmer said.
Webmail accounts do have a filtering system, but Elmer said it wasn’t doing the trick. Yahoo! mail has a double firewall to identify more spam.
When a student sets up a Webmail e-mail account the account is immediately set up with a “strong filter” which blocks all non-USU e-mails. Students however may change their personal filter system after setting up an account.
A personal filter system allows students to choose certain words, subjects and addresses that will always be allowed into the inbox or will always be immediately deleted.
The system also allows students to choose if spam is immediately thrown away or not, according the e-mail filtering FAQ Webmail link.
To have e-mails sent to your USU account forwarded to another e-mail account visit webmail.usu.edu, click on “Account Maintenance,” scroll down to “E-mail Forward Maintenance” and follow the directions.
To change your e-mail filter system follow the same directions, but scroll down to “Build a filter-at-delivery.”
-hilaryi@cc.usu.edu