Postini Tutorial - How to Use
Basic Usage
Once you have logged in to Postini, you will see a list of the e-mails that have been quarantined. Each e-mail title is a link to that e-mail, so you can read it in this browser without ever sending it to your e-mail account. Each title will have a box beside it on the left hand side. At the bottom of the list, you will buttons like this.
As you can see, you have a choice to deliver the messages to your e-mail or to delete them. So, you can select the ones that have been quarantined (by clicking in the box to the left of each message title) but that you want to have delivered. Then click on Deliver and they will appear in your inbox. Those you don't want, you may select and click on Remove.
The e-mails that have been quarantined because of suspected viruses will appear in red. They should definitely not be delivered to your e-mail account.
Customizing Postini
Once you have logged in to Postini, you will see a selection like this at the top of the page.
This allows you to customize the settings Postini provides to suit your needs. When you click on Junk Email Settings, you will get to a chart like the one below.
Here you can select the manner in which Postini reacts to your junk e-mails. The e-mails are categorized according to content. Each category can have a different setting depending on how strictly you want to manage those e-mails.
The Virus settings can be either turned on or off. The University has them turned on so as to give the campus network the maximum security it needs.
You will get past the area that allows you to customize the categories of e-mail, and get to an area that allows you to list e-mail addresses that you wish to have blocked. You simply type the e-mail address in to the field provided and click on "Add to List".
There is a similiar screen for Approved Senders. This is provided since there are some e-mail addresses that meet the description of ones that are routinely blocked. If you would like to see these, just add them to the list of approved senders, then Postini will let them through, regardless of their standing as an address that it would typically stop.
This concludes the Postini Tutorial.
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