Spam Handling
Spam
Spam is unsolicited, (usually) commercial bulk email. Pomona College provides the Postini service to protect you from as many of these as possible. Customizing your Postini account can reduce the amount of garbage emails which may slip through its existing protection.
Postini is the e-mail filter used by Pomona. It blocks suspicious messages from reaching your inbox, while still allowing you to access the messages if you must.
Postini automatically runs on your e-mail account from the moment the account is created. Postini will send you an e-mail each morning listing emails it blocked the previous day. (If nothing was blocked, you won’t get this e-mail.)
You can click on the subject line to view the message, or click deliver to send incorrectly blocked messages to your inbox.
Changing Postini settings
You can get to your Postini account by pointing your web browser at http://spam.pomona.edu.
You should have already received an e-mail from Postini with your login information; use that to access your Message Center. Near the top of the page, there’s a link that says “Junk Email Settings.” This will take you to a page that lets you adjust the strength of your protection and white- or blacklist certain users.
Viruses, Worms and Trojan Horses
These are small programs that are able to reproduce and spread on their own (the different names refer to the specific ways they spread).
Pomona College provides McAfee Anti Virus, so as long as your computer remains updated, you should be protected from most virii, worms or trojan horses.
