Spam and Virus filtering technology is available on the TW e-mail server to filter the barrage of virus-infected, spying-enabled, and unsolicited or unwanted bulk e-mail messages that show up in university e-mail inboxes.

E-mail Affected by Spam Flagging and Virus Filtering

All incoming e-mail for TW employees and students with “@txwes.edu” address and TW employees with "@law.txwes.edu" are scanned, and all e-mail whose total score is equal to or greater than the threshold value are flagged as spam, filtered as a virus, or disarmed.

E-mail sent from a university e-mail address, such as “jsmith@txwes.edu” or "jsmith@law.txwes.edu" to an e-mail address hosted on another server such as “jsmith@hotmail.com,” is also scanned.

Benefits

The benefits of having e-mail filtering are:

• Time savings because you do not have to open an e-mail message or set up an e-mail filter in order to identify e-mail messages suspected to be spam or virus infected.
• Reduced spam because the fewer spam e-mail messages you open, the fewer you will receive in the future. This is because opening a spam e-mail often indicates to the spammer that the address it was sent to is a valid address.
• Simple spam management if you receive only a little spam because no action on your part is required to set up spam flagging.
• Cost savings because technical support staff do not have to spend time removing viruses from computers infected through e-mail and you do not loose valuable data on your hard drive.