In response to the growing influx into the SMC faculty/staff e-mail system of unsolicited/unwanted commercial, adult-oriented, and virus-generated messages – i.e., "spam" - the District has purchased an enterprise-level solution to address this problem. The chosen solution will divert prior to delivery any message suspected to be spam.

The system will then daily send to each user a message called a Junk Box Summary, which summarizes the e-mail that has been diverted. In place of dozens or hundreds of unwanted messages every day, a user will instead receive a single summary message. Directly from the Summary, recipients can view and/or release for delivery any of the diverted messages. There is also a web interface that can be used instead of or in conjunction with the Summary. Together, these interfaces provide full control to recipients over the e-mail messages sent to them.

If you have specific questions or concerns about making full use of the system’s features or about customizing it according to your own preferences, please e-mail Postmaster@smc.edu.