Beginning Sunday, March 5th, 2006, OIT will be sending out messages to users regarding automatic deletion of messages greated than 4 weeks old located in the "Spam" and "Trash" folders. After consultation with the IT Steering Committee, it was decided that OIT should implement such a procedure to manage the volume of "Spam" email that is consuming users' e-mail disk space.
The e-mail will be sent out 7 days prior to the actual scheduled deletion date. A message similar to the sample below is what our customers will see.
Subject: Automatic Spam & Trash Deletion
Date: Sunday, 5 Mar 2006 17:54:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Automated System Process
Reply-To: OIT Helpdesk
To: UserName@umbc.edu
On March 12, your "Spam" and "Trash" folders will be purged of the following:
Spam: 595 messages (4MB)
Trash: 1044 messages (19MB)
Unless you move them to another folder, or otherwise delete these messages yourself.
Why is OIT Implementing This?
Beginning 3/12/2006, OIT will automatically begin purging the Spam and Trash folders of UMBC email accounts of messages that are over four weeks old. After consultation with the IT Steering Committee, it wad decided that OIT should implement such a procedure to manage the volume of "Spam" email that is consuming users' e-mail disk space.
If you wish to keep these message you must move them to another folder before the purge date. This process will run weekly. For the first few weeks of this process, you will receive a notice such as this one notifying you of how many messages may potentially be purged. This is being done to manage the volume of "SPAM" that is consuming users' e-mail disk space
Questions?
If you have questions, more information on managing your email can be found on the OIT web site under www.umbc.edu/oit by selecting "Using Email" on the left hand side. In addition, you can call the OIT Helpdesk, 5-3838,if you have questions.