computing:accounts:email:ugmail
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| computing:accounts:email:ugmail [2016/02/04 11:50] – bren | computing:accounts:email:ugmail [2016/02/08 12:06] (current) – allan |
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| What follows are some **outdated** instructions on how to tell Google to also forward Spam - there have been some issues with this approach, namely that this junk mail will get rejected by our own mail servers and causing many erroneous emails to be received. | What follows are some **outdated** instructions on how to tell Google to also forward spam - many people requested this, to avoid having to check the gmail spam folder, but changes made to the UMN mail service during January 2016 causes issues with this approach - namely that any forwarded spam which is then rejected by the physics system causes the umn system to send //you// a delivery failure message. We regard this as a poor configuration choice by umn, but are unable to change the behavior. |
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| We **now** recommend not to forward you spam along, and instead periodically check your gmail spam folder to make sure nothing is incorrectly categorized. | We now recommend **not to forward spam** from gmail, and instead periodically check your gmail spam folder to make sure nothing is incorrectly categorized. **If you have the filter below defined, please delete it** |
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| Next, you can optionally set up so that gmail does not put anything into the Spam Folder, and instead forwards on "spam" messages to the address that was set up above. | Next, you can optionally set up so that gmail does not put anything into the Spam Folder, and instead forwards on "spam" messages to the address that was set up above. |
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