E-mail@VCU
All VCU community members have access to a VCU provided e-mail account. Faculty and staff e-mail is available via Lotus Notes and VCU Mail Anywhere. Student e-mail service is available via Google Apps at VCU which provides a gateway to Google’s on-line services. This allows students to take advantage of Google’s e-mail, productivity, and collaboration tools while maintaining your “eID”@vcu.edu e-mail address. myVCUmail is VCU’s implementation of Gmail for VCU student e-mail.
For more information concerning each of these services use the links below:
VCU provides spam protection services for all VCU e-mail accounts. This is accomplished with devices set at the edge of the VCU network so all e-mail entering the University is scanned for spam. Does some spam e-mail get through? Sure because the people who send spam are always trying to figure out new ways to defeat spam scanners. During a recent one-week period over 67 million pieces of e-mail were identified as spam or phishing and stopped by the VCU spam scanners. This represented 98% of all spam that comes into the University. VCU Technology Services is always working to increase the amount of spam e-mail that is stopped before it gets to VCU mailboxes. See the Spam Scanning article in the left-hand navigation for more information about how VCU Technology Services handles spam.
Beginning September 1, 2009 VCU will discontinue quarantining spam and sending VCU community members a summary e-mail of the spam that was stopped from reaching their e-mail account. This is not the total spam that is stopped by the spam scanners but rather this is the 2% of the e-mail spam that does get through the spam scanners. For most users these spam quarantine e-mails are receive infrequently and when they are received they include only a few spam or phishing e-mails. VCU community members can use e-mail filtering control e-mail that comes into their mailboxes. Rules can be created to block or identify e-mail as junk and keep it from sitting in the mailbox with legitimate e-mail. For more information on e-mail filtering please see the E-mail Filtering article in the left-hand navigation pane.
VCU Technology Services provides other e-mail services such as Listserv, Mass Mail, Generic Department/Project e-mail and ZixMail for secure messaging. Feel free to investigate these services to determine if they might be of use to you, your department, or organization.
