The College’s mail servers receive approximately 4 million messages a month. of which, roughly 60% are spam. It’s quite clear why scanning inbound messages for spam and viruses is desirable. These message are stopped by our scanning service and are never delivered to our servers. That’s why you need to log in to an external service to take any further action on those messages. You can configure this scanning to always deliver, or whitelist, particular addresses or domains, ie, allow everything from vassar.edu. Plans are being made to implement outbound message scanning. The College’s servers don’t send out a huge … Continue reading Email, Spam & Undeliverable Messages