E-mail Services

All new student accounts are activated approximately one week after clearing for that semester.

Mirapoint Overview

The Mirapoint message server provides exceptionally high performance. Users can access their email via webmail from any desktop that has a browser, or via any standards based email client including Outlook.

The Mirapoint webmail application interface is easy to understand and use. Its enhanced functionality allows you to:

• Filter out junk mail
• Spell check mail
• Create an address book
• Search messages
• Forward mail
• Create vacation messages

Improved Spam Detection and Rejection

Mirapoint is capable of immediately rejecting unwanted email messages before they’re filtered using technology called MailHurdle in its RazorGate email security appliances. MailHurdle is capable of stopping 60 percent or more of spam before it’s even delivered. This technology by itself will not necessarily produce better spam-filtering results, but it reduces the number of messages the filters have to handle, lightens the load of internal traffic on the network, and increases message-delivery speeds.

You can create custom message filters using the Options > Message Filters page.

1. Click the Options link.
2. Then click Message Filters. (The Message Filters page will display. If you have existing filters, their order and profiles will be at the top of the page.)
3. Click New.
4. The Add/Edit Message Filter page will appear. In the Filter Conditions - Add New Filter area, specify a content condition:
   • If all of these conditions are met - filter action is done only if all of the specified conditions are true.
   • If any of these conditions are met - filter action is done if at least one of the specified conditions is true.
   • Apply to all incoming messages - filter action is done on all messages regardless of conditions. This option is deselected (disabled) by default. If you select this option, the top radio button action trigger is automatically deselected. This option is useful as a final filter in a series of filters to direct all other incoming mail to be acted upon.
5. Click More>> to enter more filter conditions.
6. Select a filter type from the drop-down list. (Filter types include filters for From, To/Cc, Subject, Body, Return-path, Junk Mail, Attachment, Message Size, and so on.)
7. Next, choose a content condition for the filter object such as contains, does not contain, matches, does not match, and so on.
8. Your final filter condition option is a value for the filter type. Enter the text, integers, MIME type, or file name you want searched for and acted on.
   • You can use the following wildcard characters with the matches or does not match options only: Asterisk (*) matches any sequence of zero or more characters; question mark (?) matches any single character.
9. In the Filter Action area, specify what you want Mirapoint to do with the message. For example: move it to a specified folder, flag it, forward it, discard it, and so on.
10. Once you have created your filter, click Apply. The system accepts the settings and a description of the filter appears above the Filter Conditions box. Incoming messages and attachments are filtered and acted on as directed. You are also returned to the Message Filters list page.