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 is in the process of converting to myVCUmail powered by Google. All new students have been moved to the new myVCUmail service with returning students being migrated to myVCUmail the week of September 7th, 2009.  For more information concerning each of these services use the links below:

• Lotus Notes
• VCU Mail Anywhere
• myVCUmail

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, 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.