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Fight SPAM

SPAM is unsolicited and unwanted email, period. It clogs up email servers and irritates people who just want to get the email they WANT. We can help you get rid of SPAM for good with ITS SPAM Blocker. It's an opt-in service so you need to sign-up for it and tell us how aggressively you want to be in keeping SPAM out of your inbox.

Get Started Fighting SPAM

You can activate the spam filter on your Clark email account by logging in and changing the "Current Protection Level" from "Off" to one of the 5 Filtering Levels described below. So, choose your filtering level and login at: https://spam.clarku.edu/login.php

  1. Permissive: At this level many spam messages will be allowed through the filter. Only blatant spam messages will be blocked. At this level most all mail will get through, much of it spam.
  2. Relaxed: At this level the spam filter will not block messages as readily as it would on the normal setting. This level may not as effectively decrease the amount of spam reaching your account.
  3. Normal: This is the recommended level to set the spam filter to. As long as the filter is properly trained this level will ensure that your account is protected from spam, but at the same time help prevent valid messages from being lost.
  4. Aggressive: This level sits between Normal and Extreme because it increases the risk of blocking valid messages. It will decrease the amount of spam sent to your account, but it is very important to check your cache often to make sure valid messages are marked as such.
  5. Extreme: This level will filter out messages that score lower still than the agressive filter. This level has the highest chance of blocking legitimate messages so the Cache should be checked often.