Spam Controls

How To Use Computer Science Spam Controls

Introduction

Computer Science uses a combination of spam fighting tools. Primarily, we use free software call ASSP. ASSP uses an email interface to control how it behaves. See the links section below to learn how to control ASSP. We also do server side filtering for spam. Email that makes it through ASSP, but is still considered spam is automatically filtered into a mail folder called "caughtspam". You can turn this filtering off or on (on by default) here: https://admin.cs.vt.edu/email.pl

Links

Here are links to documents telling you how to use the spam filtering software ASSP used by Computer Science.

• Adding/Removing email addresses to your personal blacklist
• Adding email addresses to the whitelist
• Getting a report on emails that are blocked and retrieving them

Quick Guide

• notspam@cs.vt.edu - Report a valid message that incorrectly got tagged as spam (forward as attachment)
• spam@cs.vt.edu - Report a spam message that did not get tagged as spam (forward as attachment)
• spamreport@cs.vt.edu - Blocked email report/retrieve blocked emails
• blacklist@cs.vt.edu - Add personal blacklist addresses
• blacklistremove@cs.vt.edu - Remove personal blacklist addresses
• whitelist@cs.vt.edu - Add site-wide whitelist addresses