MeritMail: Email Disk Quotas, SPAM Blocking, and Vacation Messages

Email Disk Quotas

Each user has been allocated a maximum amount of storage space. Any new e-mail sent to you while your e-mail has exceeded your e-mail disk quota will be rejected and returned to its sender.
Messages in your Inbox and all other saved messages count towards your e-mail disk quota.
The easiest way to monitor your e-mail disk quota is to use the MeritMail web client which always displays how much disk space you are using at the top of any email folder index (including the index for your inbox).

SPAM Blocking

Junk Mail Manager is available to all MeritMail users. Users of all e-mail programs can use the MeritMail web client to set up this feature. You can then use the web client (or any other e-mail client) to review the contents of your Junk Mail folder.
Start Outlook Express and log in as you ordinarily do.
If you choose to use junk mail filtering, log in to MeritMail and follow the steps described in the Merit document "MeritMail Direct: Control Junk/SPAM E-mail". If you choose this option, potential SPAM is moved to a Junk Mail folder on Merit's new e-mail system. Junk mail is held for 14 days, unless you delete the messages sooner than that.
If you opt to use the MeritMail junk mail filter, you must check your Junk Mail folder often so as not to miss important messages that have been mis-identified as potential SPAM.
Even though you need to use the MeritMail web client to set up the junk mail filter, you can check the Junk Mail folder in MeritMail or any other e-mail client that is properly configured.

"Vacation" Messages

Users of all e-mail programs can use MeritMail to set an "Automatic Reply."
1. Login to the web client at http://meritmail.merit.edu
2. Select Options from the main menu (to the left of your screen).
3. Select Automatic Reply from the Access Control tool list (towards the top of your screen).
4. Type an appropriate subject and message in the text boxes provided.
5. Click Start.
6. Select Logout from the main menu.
7. When you return to campus, login to the web client, select Options, and select Automatic Reply. On the screen that displays your automatic reply, click Stop. You can then read your e-mail in MeritMail or select Logout.
Caution: Because it sends responses to your e-mail that, in essence, confirm the validity of your e-mail address, using the Automatic Reply option can increase the amount of unsolicited e-mail (SPAM) your account receives.