Email filtering

The School of Medicine uses a network level email filter to protect all computers inside the campus network.  This filter -- actually a sophisticated set of software and hardware -- intercepts literally millions of spam and other malicious messages each month.  This filtering occurs only for email coming into the medical campus; intra-campus email is not examined.

Email filtering is very good, but it cannot be perfect.  If you receive spam email that gets past the filters, you can send it to spam@med.miami.edu to help us adjust the filtering rules.  On the other hand, it is possible the filters will intercept email that you want to receive.  In that case, your can see it listed on your daily spam report, and "release" it from quarantine into your inbox. 

For more details on managing filtering, see the instructions for using email filtering and understanding your spam report.  If you'd like to have a better idea of how email filtering works generally, see the "Learn about" entry on email filtering.