IT Status (Dept of Mathematics, U of Toronto)
Due to the repeated unsolicited email originating from the following addresses:
richard.huber@computeroxy.com
training@info.TrainHR.com
we have started automatically directing email from those sites to the SuspectedSpam folder, with a label that says [BLACKLISTED]. If you need to receive email from that site please let us know and you can whitelist the required addresses (see our Email and Spam Filtering webpage for more information).
Due to the continual advertising spam received from newsletter@dealathons.com we have started automatically directing email from that site to the SuspectedSpam folder, with a label that says [BLACKLISTED]. If you need to receive email from that site please let us know and you can whitelist the required addresses (see our Email and Spam Filtering webpage for more information).
Due to the continual spam received from certain domains we have started directing email from many sites ending in dealticker.com, videoblogsensation.com, and 163.com to the SuspectedSpam folder automatically, with a label that says [BLACKLISTED]. If you need to receive email from these sites please let us know and you can whitelist the required addresses (see our Email and Spam Filtering webpage for more information).
The University’s email system for students, called UTmail+, has a scheduled service outage this weekend. After clicking on the UTmail+ link on the University’s system status page (http://www.systemstatus.utoronto.ca/) you will currently see:
The service outage will begin on Friday, October 11, 2013 at 4:00 P.M. with service restored on or before Sunday, October 13.
The departmental email will not be affected (except if you try to mail to an address like user@mail.utoronto.ca of course).
Due to the continual spam (often concerning LED lighting sales) received from certain domains we have started directing email from many sites ending in icp.net and icp.cc to the SuspectedSpam folder automatically, with a label that says [BLACKLISTED]. If you need to receive email from these sites please let us know and you can whitelist the required addresses (see our Email and Spam Filtering webpage for more information).
The spam filter software installation took much less time than expected and everything seems to have been back to normal before 8am.
