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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 > > -- > Leo Sell > ATS Help Desk > Michigan State University > 517-432-6200 > help.msu.edu >