Then something has gone wrong with the "migration". Someone on the mail team
really needs to look into the migration process and figure out what went
wrong.
I can say with certainty that I did not have any filters on the "old" mail
system when it was shut down in May 2009, and I did not create any filters
in the "new" webmail that replaced it. Now I have about a dozen Accept/Block
entries that should not be there.
Somehow the August 4 migration resurrected filters that were much older and
which I had deleted. This seems to be the same thing that others are
reporting here.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leo Sell [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 9:35 AM
> To: Chris Wolf
> Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Question about mail.msu.edu block lists
>
> >So you're saying that if I logged on prior to August 4, I would have
> >found the Accept/Block settings in the same spot where they are now,
> >with the same contents as what I'm seeing now, but they only
> affected
> >the mail processing while I was logged on. Is that right?
>
>
> Chris, you don't have it quite correct.
>
> Prior to August 4, the Block/Accept functions accessed via
> menu item at the top of a message populated the respective
> mail.msu.edu Filter rule. By default the Accept and the Block
> list filter rules were at the top of the list of filters.
>
> In actuality the reason the functions were only operative
> within webmail was because they were webmail filters and
> therefore had no bearing on mail client receipt of mail.
>
> The maintenance performed August 4 commenced a migration
> routine that removed those filters from webmail and moved
> their contents to the new function. Once migrated, those
> lists became operative regardless of whether a user checks
> mail via webmail or client software. User maintenance of
> those lists requires access via webmail's MSU Prefs.
>
>
> >I thought I was reasonably familiar with the webmail settings, and
> >these Accept/Block settings simply were not there a month ago.
> >
>
> You're correct - they were filters and not in the MSU Prefs.
> /L
>
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> Leo Sell
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> Michigan State University
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> help.msu.edu
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