Comments | uwaterloo: Cleaning up @uwaterloo email

mixedchick6 in uwaterloo

Cleaning up @uwaterloo email

Sep 11, 2010 10:25

Does anyone know of a quick way to purge the @uwaterloo.ca email account of junk mail? I'm a returning student and would like to be able to use this address again, but the spam is driving me crazy and Blacklisting hasn't helped much. Maybe I have to resort to my @alumni.uwaterloo address which I receive at my gmail account ( Read more... )

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taralynn8 September 11 2010, 14:39:38 UTC

Just forward it too to your gmail account. That's what I did when I was a student and that's how I still receive emails from the university because I haven't gotten around to setting up an @alumni address.

mixedchick6 September 11 2010, 15:03:29 UTC

Thanks. I'm a little concerned about doing this, because my gmail account will get swamped with the spam that my uwaterloo address is getting.

taralynn8 September 11 2010, 15:32:48 UTC

Not if it's spam-spam - Gmail will count it as spam and you won't see it.

dawn_guy September 11 2010, 15:43:24 UTC

If you're using the mailservices email account, you can log in to the Squirrelmail interface https://mailservices.uwaterloo.ca/webmail/src/login.php then pick Filters from the top menu, Add a New SPAM Rule, tune it however you like, and choose STOP.

Put this rule ahead of forwarding the rest of your email to Gmail and you'll leave a lot of your junk mail behind on the UW Waterloo server -- check it once in a while to make sure you're not missing anything important that was marked incorrectly as spam -- leaving the bulk of what gets sent to your Gmail account as at least theoretically useful mail.