SPAM Filters

Available to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Faculty and Staff

We are all victims of SPAM delivered along with our legitimate e-mail. UTO maintains border filters to trap the most obvious SPAM messages, but a number of SPAM messages still get through. We can’t prevent SPAM, but there are a number of proactive steps you can take to ease the burden of incessant SPAM e-mail.

The ASU Help Center provides lots of useful information on managing SPAM.

• What is SPAM?
• How do SPAMers get my e-mail address?
• What can I do to reduce the amount of SPAM I receive?
• What is ASU doing to stop SPAM?
• SPAM filtering service overview
• How do I report SPAM, chain letter, and other annoying and abusive e-mail?
• How do I manage junk e-mail settings using Outlook Web Access?

Outlook Users

• Turn on your Outlook junk and adult content e-mail filters.
• Customize your Outlook filters as more creative and specific words are added to the list of filtered messages.
• Turn off the preview pane on the Outlook client. (Prevents pornography from being displayed, prevents message being sent to SPAM sender letting them know yours is a live e-mail address, and also prevents malicious code from executing.)