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To ensure that staff and students aren’t exposed to malicious phishing or spam emails our system administrators and security team had to enable a stricter spam filter earlier this year as added protection.
A spam filter assigns every message, received and sent, a spam confidence level based on the likelihood that the message is spam. Depending on its level an inbound message may be relayed directly to the user’s Junk Email folder. The filter looks at certain criteria contained in the email it rates, for example too many hyperlinks or a suspicious file attached. Tweaking the filter can be tricky – we don’t want you to miss important emails, but at the same time it’s our responsibility to protect you and all our staff from harmful attacks.
For this reason, it’s important that you regularly look in your Junk Email folder in case the spam filter might have relayed it there.
The main purpose of Microsoft Outlook’s Junk Email Filter helps is to reduce unwanted email messages in your Inbox. Junk email, also known as spam, is moved by the filter away to the Junk Email folder. This is done at an institutional level by Microsoft (as mentioned above), but you can also flag or “un”flag messages from a person or company as Junk email.
How to change your spam filter’s preferences.
How to tag an email as junk mail.
How to report spam or junk email to Microsoft. (downloadable PDF-document)
If you have any questions, please log a request on the ICT Partner Portal.
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Om te verseker dat personeel en studente nie blootgestel word aan gevaarlike strikroof of gemorspos nie het ons stelseladministrateurs en sekuriteitspan vroeër die jaar `n addisionele vlak van sekuriteit implementeer deur die gemorsposfilter strenger te maak.
Maar hoe werk `n gemorsposfilter? Aan elke boodskap wat ontvang of gestuur word, word`n sekerheidsvlak toegeken op grond van die waarskynlikheid dat dit gemorspos is. Afhangende van dié vlak sal die inkomende boodskap direk na die gebruiker se Junk Email vouer gestuur word, of nie. Die filter kyk na sekere kriteria in die e-pos, soos byvoorbeeld meer as `n sekere hoeveelheid skakels of potensieël gevaarlike aanhangsels. Om die perfekte balans te tref is moeilik – ons wil nie hê jy moet belangrike e-posse mis nie, maar terselfdertyd is dit ons verantwoordelikheid om jou en al ons gebruikers te beskerm van kwaadwillige aanvalle.
Om hierdie rede is dit belangrik dat jy gereeld in jou Junk E-mail vouer kyk om seker te maak dat daar nie belangrike e-posse lê en wag nie.
Die hoofdoel van Microsoft Outlook se gemorsposfilter is om onwelkome e-posboodskappe weg te hou uit jou Inbox deur dit in die Junk Email vouer te plaas. Hierdie proses word op `n institusionele vlak deur Microsoft toegepas (soos hierbo genoem word), maar jy kan self ook boodskappe van `n persoon of maatskappy merk as gemorspos of nie.
Hoe om jou gemorsposfilter aan te pas.
Hoe om `n e-pos as gemorspos te merk.
Hoe om gemorspos en strikroof by Microsoft aan te meld. (aflaaibare PDF-dokument)
Vir verdere navrae teken asseblief `n versoek aan op die ICT Partner Portal.
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