Enable Spam Assassin on Your EGR Account

SpamAssassin is an e-mail filter, written in Perl, to identify SPAM using a wide range of heuristic tests on e-mail headers and body text.

Why use SpamAssassin?

Users find that enabling SpamAssassin greatly reduces the amount of SPAM present within their EGR Inbox. Users should also be sure to check their "Spam" and "Spam-last-week" e-mail folders for any false positives. Anytime a false positive (a message that was marked incorrectly as SPAM) is found it should be forwarded with full headers to abuse@egr.msu.edu.

How to Enable or Disable Spam Assassin:

(NOTE: If you are currently using the old mail server, you will need to be migrated to the new one. Please contact DECS for assistance.)

Using your EGR username and password:

Log in here to enable/disable SpamAssassin

Click on "Spam Filtering"

The page will display one of the following:
Status: Spam Filtering is enabled
Status: Spam Filtering is disabled

To enable SpamAssassin:
Click on "Turn On Spam Filtering"

To disable SpamAssassin:
Click on "Turn On Spam Filtering"

Additional Information about Spam Assassin:

If you would like additional information about Spam Assassin, please contact DECS or visit: http://spamassassin.apache.org.