What is SpamAssassin?
SpamAssassin is an email filter, written in Perl, to identify spam using a wide range of heuristic tests on email 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" email 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 SpamAssassin
1. Using your EGR username and password, log in here (the My Account page of the DECS website) to enable/disable SpamAssassin.
2. Click Email Spam Filtering in the menu under Account.
3. The page will display a message with your spam filter status.
4. To change the status, click in the checkbox next to Enable Spam Filtering and then click Save Filter.
5. Log out.
Additional Information About SpamAssassin
If you would like additional information about SpamAssassin, please contact DECS or visit: http://spamassassin.apache.org.
If legitimate email is being sent to your spam account, please set up email allowlisting.
1. Using your EGR username and password, log in here (the My Account page of the DECS website) to enable/disable SpamAssassin.
2. Click Email Spam Filtering in the menu under Account.
3. The page will display a message with your spam filter status.
4. Click Allowlisting (Accepting).
5. To enable allowlisting, click the checkbox next to Enable Allowlist.
6. Add the email address that you want to filter (one per line). These can contain a wildcard (*), i.e. *@msu.edu would be all msu.edu addresses.
7. Press Save to save changes.
If spam is still being sent to your Inbox, please set up email blocklisting.
1. Using your EGR username and password, log in here (the My Account page of the DECS website) to enable/disable SpamAssassin.
2. Click Email Spam Filtering in the menu under Account.
3. The page will display a message with your spam filter status.
4. Click Blocklisting (Blocking).
5. To enable blocklisting, click the checkbox next to Enable blocklist.
6. Add the email address that you want to filter (one per line). These can contain a wildcard (*), i.e. *@junkmail.com would be all junkmail.com addresses.
7. Press Save to save changes.
