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Manually delete your unwanted mailīecause BU’s centralized filtering is very effective, many people do not use other forms of filtering and simply delete the unwanted messages that do get through. However, the options outlined below are available for managing the spam that gets through BU’s automated filtering and you can use these methods in whatever way provides the optimal results for your situation. It’s inevitable that you will get some unwanted mail because there is no perfect system for filtering it. Everyone with an email address is a target for the same kind of automatically-generated spam. It’s very unlikely that getting a new email address from BU will solve the problem. In addition, viruses can use infected machines to send spam, in which case you could receive unwanted messages simply because you appear in the address book of someone who owns an infected computer. How did spammers get my address?Ĭomputers make it easy to automatically generate random combinations of numbers and letters that can then be prefixed to and sent out. However, if you do want to know more about spam and filtering, the following information will be helpful.

Our centralized filtering helps to minimize the number of unwanted messages that get through to accounts, and the vast majority of people reading BU email do not experience a significant problem with spam. Boston University uses a Cisco Cloud Email Security Appliance (Cisco ESA) to automatically filter unwanted mail at the central mail gateway.