Email Gateway Information

What happens to email messages that are infected with a virus?

The COCC email gateway automatically deletes all known virus messages so that they will not appear in your inbox.

Although it is still possible to receive a virus in your email due to new viruses being released, this system greatly reduces the amount of junk virus email that is received and as a result keep our inboxes substantially cleaner.

For more virus related information click here.

What happens to SPAM?

Deleting email suspected of being SPAM is a difficult topic due to the risk of losing important email. Therefore COCC has taken a cautious approach to minimize the risk of data loss while still trying to improve the SPAM situation at COCC. The COCC email firewall is currently configured to block all incoming email from known spammers (Spamhaus) as well as block email that is received and known to be SPAM based upon a wide range of rules which are built in to the email firewall.

What has this email gateway done for us?

We block an average of 200,000 SPAM messages and only allow about 15,000 messages in to our campus email system each day.

Due to recent SPAM trends COCC is currently blocking all email that receives a SPAM rating of 7 or above. Use of this rating level has proven very safe with respect to blocking legitimate email however ITS continues to monitor our email closely in order to help catch any mistakenly blocked email.