Friday, December 25, 2009

Blacklisted by Hotmail (again)

E-mail to hotmail accounts may be rejected until we clear our good name with the service (once again).  Yet again, a user has had their account used to send thousands of messages to external entities which has resulted in blacklisting. We will try to clear this up as soon as possible.

 

In the mean-time, use your UDM account to e-mail other UDM accounts instead of e-mailing to/or from a hotmail account.  Sending to accounts within the University domain are gaurenteed delivery.

 

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Brim over I assent to but I about the collection should prepare more info then it has.

Sandy, csj said...

Seems to me that there could be something done to delay suspicious outgoing e-mail from a UDM account to allow checking its legitimacy before letting it go out.

I realize that some would object to this as a violation of privacy, but this seems to happen repeatedly enough that we should be willing to accept some measures be taken to prevent future instances of blacklisting...

UDM-ITS said...

There are both commercial and open source solutions available. Addressing outgoing SPAM is part of a large network security project that will take place in 2010 - along with an enterprise level firewall and intrusion prevention system. Stay tuned.

Amy Jolgren said...

I have been unable to access blackboard since finals week, I need to get in soon to read anouncements regarding my next 2 classes, SOS

UDM-ITS said...

Amy, is it not accepting your user code and password?