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Is it unheard of to request a new email?
My sfu email is getting spam now and its really irritating me, is it unheard of for students to be assigned an additional account replacing the other?
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I just usually use the block filters and it works fine :)
to check: login through SFU webmail, click Options, then click Block Spam (Completely).
Then if it says Your Email is Turned OFF, go to Handle Spam and just turn the filter on.
If the it said that it's turned ON then...i'd just manually put in the emails into the Blacklist. :/
Getting a new email from SFU is pretty much impossible as I am sure you know that everything is hooked up to your unix ID.
i know a guy who has 2 emails i just never asked him why
but i kno he worked for sfu
though, i really only use one of them to avoid the "so which email address should i send this to?"
Also, did you post your SFU email anywhere? Or use it to register an account on some websites?
my sfu email has not been used for anything other than sfu stuff thats why im confused, and confused why i got a spam from someone at sfu
is most of the spam coming from that specific sfu account? maybe you could reply back and ask him/her whether those emails were sent intentionally? if not, it'd be good for the person to know whether his/her account is affected by some spam generator--i'd certainly like to know if it happened to me lol. i've heard about some kind of phishing technique where the link is clicked and then it sends out the same spam email to the person's address list...computers that use mail apps like Outlook are particularly vulnerable to that if they don't do anything to protect themselves from it.
you get one email account but three variations of addresses
[email]username@sfu.ca[/email]
[email]first_last@sfu.ca[/email]
[email]first.last@sfu.ca[/email]
And of course there's the special email accounts (e.g. cs.sfu.ca) for various people.
i cant log into the ones with my first last name, if email is sent to those does it just go to my main account? thats how it was explained to me by people i work with i think
but im not talking about that, im talking about people who aren't TA's, not employed by SFU, not CS, yet have unique email address
I just dont open anything that looks....odd.
the people with custom addresses probably got them by request, and probably because of some problems with the one they're assigned automatically. If you want to try just talk to the people responsible for it (i'm not sure who they are though).