The departmental mail server will be unavailable starting at 7am on Wednesday (March 6, 2013) morning for an update to the spam filter software. We expect that it will be back by 9am and will post status updates here if there are changes.
Another phishing email
November 22, 2012 by
A phishing email with Subject:
Mail: Respond Immediately!!
and claiming to come From:
University of Toronto <ysun39@fordham.edu>
has been sent to the department. Please delete it, it is spam.
More phishing emails
November 16, 2012 by
A phishing email with Subject:
[URGENT]
and claiming to come From:
“University of Toronto” <help-desk@math.toronto.edu>
has been sent to the department. Please delete it, it is spam.
More phishing emails (this time for utoronto.ca)
October 23, 2012 by
The University announced that:
There may be a “verify your account, click here” type message coming from “accounts-utoronto.ca” targeting utoronto.ca mail accounts. Not sure whether it is scarce, or widespread, but just in case, this is an early warning.
Please do not follow any such links.
Another phishing email with subject “University of Toronto (Maths Dept)”
October 18, 2012 by
A phishing email, purporting to come from:
“notification@math.toronto.edu” <pgomez1988@gmail.com>
and with message:
This is an impromptu notification, download the attached PDF file and reply to this email.
has been sent to some people in the department. Please delete it without opening the PDF file.
Another phishing email with subject "Important Notice."
October 5, 2012 by
A phishing email, purporting to come from:
“ithelp_webmasterhelp@math.toronto.edu” <pgomez1988@gmail.com>
and with message:
Attached to this email in PDF format are updates about your email.
has been sent to some people in the department. Please ignore it.
"spear phishing" spam email with Subject "News Update"
September 20, 2012 by
Starting yesterday evening people in the department were sent a spam email (of the spear phishing variety) with a Subject line that read “News Update” with an unusual URL in the body of the message and which purportedly was sent by Beverley (it was not sent by her). Please just delete that message.
Much larger email quotas
November 21, 2011 by
Now that our new backup servers are online there is more space and the email quotas have been increased for all users by one-half gigabyte.
Phishing email messages
November 15, 2011 by
Starting yesterday afternoon there were many phishing emails sent out to departmental members. If you received an email from:
“Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto” helpdesk@math.toronto.edu
with Subject Line:
Your Mailbox Has Exceeded
and the message asks you to click on a link that is in Germany (the hostname part ends in “.de”) then that is a phishing message.
Controlling spam in your email
April 6, 2011 by
There is a new command on coxeter called spamfiltering_gui which is a simple graphical interface to change email spamfiltering options (there is a command line interface called spamfiltering). You can change three options via this new interface:
Aggressiveness from 0 (off) to 9 (extremely aggressive). This controls how many messages will be put automatically in your SuspectedSpam folder, instead of being delivered to your main mailbox. This is based on an estimate of the likelihood that a message is spam.
Autoexpire can be off or on, and if it is on you can choose how many days to leave messages in the SuspectedSpam folder before they are deleted by the system.
Autodelete can be off or on. This automatically deletes messages which are judged as being spam with probability 99% or 100%. It is highly recommended that this be left on, which is the system default.
