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Maintained and managed by Veronica "Ronni" Wilkinson, Network Manager.

E-mail: ronni at engr.sc.edu

Mail Server

The college uses Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 running on a Dell 6450 dual Pentium III Xeon with approximately 236 gigabytes of storage.

Please read and follow the E-mail Policy and Guidelines.

Forwarding

By default all members of the Engineering college receive a mailbox. However, if you already have an established mailbox somewhere else you may want to forward your Engineering mailbox to that mailbox. If you choose to setup forwarding you will still have a mailbox with the college, but the e-mail sent to it will be forwarded to the other mailbox you specify.

The following link will allow you to enter a forwarding address. You will first have to login with your Engineering username and password: I want to set, change, or remove my email forwarding address.

Storage Limits

It is very easy to let your mailbox get out of hand and quickly fill up and exceed your storage limits. There are two simple methods that you can perform to prevent this: Personal Folders and Archiving. In the mailbox maintenance tutorial, you will learn how to check your current mailbox size, trim the size of your mailbox down, and use Personal Folders or Archiving.

Every mail account has a storage limit.	Students (megabytes)	Employees (megabytes)
Issue Warning	45	245
Prohibit sending mail	N/A	N/A
Prohibit sending and receiving mail	50	250

Access

You may access the mail server in many ways locally and remotely. For local access we recommend using Microsoft Outlook which is installed by default in the Windows computer labs. See your IT department if you are experiencing installation or configuration issues.

For remote and off campus access see the chart below. Choose an access method and click the client for instructions on configuration. If the client you want to use is not listed see the instructions for the chosen access method to find out what information is needed. The parameters for a specified method are the same regardless of the client, usually only the client screens are different. See your client's instructions for further information.

Remote Access Methods and Clients
NOTE: WE NO LONGER SUPPORT OUTLOOK EXPRESS.
NATIVE OUTLOOK 2003
POP3 and SMTP, Outlook 2003
IMAP, Outlook 2003
WEB BROWSER
REMOTE ACCESS, Outlook Anywhere
THUNDERBIRD, Linux
THUNDERBIRD, Windows
MACINTOSH	Coming soon

Setting up Spam Filtering Rules

Our collective ability to use email efficiently is being eroded by unwanted, offensive, and unsolicited commercial email. Email users are bombarded with this Spam everyday, but you can take some steps to help ease the annoyances.

Here on campus, email from the internet is being filtered through a pair of anti-spam systems at CSD running SpamAssassin and using McAfee's virus scanning engine. SpamAssassin allows personalized filtering by assigning all emails a SpamScore in the header of the email. The score is represented by a repeated lowercase 's' appending "X-SC-MailScanner-SpamScore:" in the message header. You specify what level of spam you wish to filter. This tutorial will show you how to setup rules in Outlook to automatically move these emails for you into designated folders.

There are several ways to implement these rules. The following instructions is our most recommended approach. NOTE: There is no way to completely eliminate spam, but you can take several methods to help prevent it. After implementing these rules, some spam will still come through to your mailbox, and false positives may be filtered into your Spam folder. You need to periodically check your spam folder to make sure that there are no false positives.

Barracuda Spam Firewall - FAQ

The College of Engineering and Computing has provided a service to help you deal with spam. To help you with our Barracuda Spam Firewall, we've created a FAQ.

Creating Anti-Spam Rules

Before you begin creating the rule, you must create a folder in your personal folders. (Please see Mailbox Maintenance for creating personal folders).

• Open Microsoft Outlook and create a folder in your Personal Folders named Spam.
• Follow the steps for your appropriate version of Microsoft Outlook.
  • Microsoft Outlook XP (2002)
  • Microsoft Outlook 2003