Increased chance of SPAM/phishing mails in Science mailbox   cpk

The RU contract with the anti-SPAM/anti-phishing service Proofpoint expired September 21, 2023, which means that ‘Proofpoint End User Digest’ mails are not sent anymore after that date. C&CZ is migrating Science mailboxes to the anti-SPAM/anti-phishing service of Microsoft Exchange Online Protection. There is an increased chance of receiving SPAM/phishing mails in the Science mailbox during this migration period. P.S. the RU central mailboxes (with addresses ending in @ru.nl) have already been migrated to Microsoft Exchange Online Protection....

Updated Apr 2, 2024  ·  Erik Joost Visser · Created Sep 14, 2023 ·  Erik Visser

E-mail and spam   howto

E-mail The faculty of Science has its own mailserver where the e-mails are stored. You can reach this mailserver using a mailclient like thunderbird or one of our webmail clients: Roundcube Rainloop The mailserver has limited space, so we’ve set an initial limit (quota) on the size of the mailbox to 5 gigabytes. When you are notified that your mailbox is getting full, the preferred response is to clean up, for instance by removing the attachments of the largest e-mails in your Sent folder....