Message Center

Message Center is an email protection service that provides each user with a Message Center where your spam and viruses are filtered and quarantined. Your legitimate email messages are delivered to your email inbox, just as they always have, but junk and virus-infected email is routed to your Message Center. You can also customize the service from within the Message Center. This document talks about using and managing your Message Center.

Getting the most out of your Message Center

It is strongly recommended that you check your Message Center daily at first so your filters "learn" to be more effective and accurate. Upon regular review, remove the unwanted messages and deliver the ones you want. You can also safely read the contents of a virus-infected email in your Message Center without the risk of harming your own personal system.

All quarantined messages are held for 14 days until they are automatically deleted.

Once logged in you can manage the following features of your email protection service.

Junk Quarantine Settings

Filters that block unwanted email from reaching your inbox.

Virus Settings

Options for blocking virus-infected messages.

Personal Settings

Personal options, including your:

	Message Center password
	Time zone and language preference
	Email aliases (alternate email addresses you use)

Under junk quarantine settings you can;

Adjust Filters	Adjust filters that determine how aggressively your email is filtered for unwanted junk messages.
Approve Senders	View lists of friendly senders and domains whose messages bypass junk email filters and reach your inbox, regardless of junk-like content.
Block Senders	View lists of known, blacklisted senders and domains whose email messages are always blocked from reaching your inbox.

Under virus settings you can set;

Virus Email Blocking

When this setting is ON, Message Center scans your incoming email messages for viruses, worms, and other malicious file attachments. If an infected message is detected, it's sent to your Virus Quarantine.

You can turn Virus Email Blocking on or off by clicking ON or OFF.

Do not turn off Virus Email Blocking or you might receive infected messages that harm your computer.

Email Notification

Indicates how promptly Message Center informs you that one or more virus-infected messages have been quarantined. Possible values include:

Immediately Delivers a notification each time a virus-infected message is quarantined. Note that during a virus outbreak, when many viruses might be blocked in a row, you will receive several notifications (one for each virus).

Once per Day You receive only one notification on any day that one or more viruses are blocked.

Disable Notifications You don't receive any virus notifications.

To change this setting, choose another option from the list and click SAVE.

Current organization

default

Your administrator organizes users of the email protection service into groups, called organizations. This field displays the default notification interval set for your group.

What is my Virus Quarantine?

How do I view my Virus Quarantine?

What types of malicious files does Virus Blocking detect?

Can Virus Email Blocking scan compressed file attachments, such as ZIP files

What does the virus email notification contain?

Under Personal Settings you can set;

Change Password

Click this link to change the password you use to log in to Message Center.

Add Email Alias

Click this link to manage alternate email addresses, or aliases, that have been added to Message Center for your account. Messages sent to these aliases are filtered for unwanted mail and viruses, just as for your primary address.

Language and

Time Zone

Shows:

	The language used to display Message Center.
	The default character encoding (letters, numbers, and symbols) Message Center uses to display messages.
	The time zone that Message Center uses to timestamp messages you receive.