The virus and spam protection mechanisms in place on nature have evolved largely without input from you, the folks with accounts on nature. While this has been workable in general, it has long been a goal to offer individuals a choice on how detected (or mis-detected) unwanted messages are handled. When a good piece of email (aka, "ham") is blocked by mistake, the value of the entire blocking effort is questioned. On the other hand, when a piece of spam leaks through to our INBOX, we need a way to report it.
Enter
Maia Mailguard -- a web based application that allows each of us to control our filtering and reporting options. Detected mal-mail is saved for a period of time allowing you to view and dispose of it as you wish.
Feel free to visit this site if you feel the need to adjust your personal mail filtering options or just explore the options at your disposal:
https://nature.berkeley.edu/mail/
Login with your full email address, including @nature.berkeley.edu, and your email password*. You will find listings for:
You can also adjust your filtering options, e.g. to "opt out" of all of nature's filtering. I've set the defaults to match the system options that are in place on nature now.
For more information on the many options available, click on the help icon within Maia, or visit the Maia home site at http://www.maiamailguard.com/
* Some of you may need to set your email password first. Do this at our secure site: https://nature.berkeley.edu