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Users of BlitzMail or other e-mail applications can use a new spam
filter to screen out unwanted messages.
The filtering software, called SpamAssassin, analyzes your incoming
mail on a number of criteria to determine if it meets your definition of spam
(unsolicited commercial e-mail).
If a message meets that definition of spam — for example, it carries a
subject line with the word Viagra — SpamAssassin moves the message
into a folder for your review. (It's recommended that you periodically check
that folder to determine if the messages should be thrown away.)
To use SpamAssassin, you must be using BlitzMail or a
similar e-mail application that uses the IMAP protocol. POP is currently
unsupported.
For more information, go to http://www.dartmouth.edu/comp/about/policies/email/spam.html.
The spam filtering service will also be available to alumni accounts on
dartmouth.org this fall.
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