Spamblock - Stern's Pure Message anti-spam system

Pure Message is Stern's Enterprise anti-spam system. You may login to spamblock.stern.nyu.edu to access the system. The spamblock system will allow you to review messages sent to your account that were flagged as spam and not delivered to your inbox. If you wish to have a message in the filter delivered to your inbox, you can choose to do so.

Login to Puremessage

To login to spamblock, use the link at the bottom of your daily "Quarantined spam messages" digest email or visit spamblock.stern.nyu.edu.

You will see a login box that looks like the one below:

Enter your Stern netID or login ID into the top box. You don not need to enter your full Stern email address. Enter your regular Stern password and then click the login button. Depending on the amount of spam messages addressed to you, login may take time.

Review your spam

After login you will see a list of messages sent to your address that spamblock stopped. You may review the list and choose to delete or deliver any of the messages. See example below:

The list of messages will include the sender and the subject as well as the spam score (probability of the message being spam expressed as a percentage with 100% equaling maximum probability of being spam). Use the navigation bar in the upper and lower right corners to scroll through page views of blocked messages. The navigation bar is shown below:

Recover a message that is not spam

To recover a message that is not spam, check on the box to the left of the message listing. Once you have checked all the messages you wish to recover, click on the "Deliver Message" button at either the top or bottom of the message list. If you wish for all mail from that sender to be delivered to your Stern box in the future, click "Deliver & Approve Sender." All checked messages will be delivered to your Stern inbox. Delivery is not immediate, but takes a few hours.

Approve a Sender

To add a sender to your list of allowed senders, click on the "Approved Senders" link in the left side menu bar of the main screen. You will see a dialogue box like the one below:

Enter the address of the sender you wish to allow messages from and then click the "Add Sender" button. This will prevent future messages from that address being stopped by the spam filter.

Block a Sender

To prevent a sender from sending spam to your Stern account, copy the address of the sender and add it to the Blocked Senders dialogue box in Spamblock. Click on the "Blocked Senders" link in the left side menu bar. You will see a dialogue box like the one below:

Enter the address of the sender you wish to block messages from and then click the "Add Sender" button. Future messages from that address will be blocked by the spam filter and not delivered to your inbox.

Deleting Spam

The puremessage system gives you the ability to delete spam messages. You may choose to delete individual or groups of messages by checking the box(es) to the left of the message(s) and then clicking "Delete Message" button on the top menu. You may also delete all blocked message by clicking the "Delete All" button on the top menu bar. Please note the message count on the screen will not update instantly after deleting messages.

If you do not delete blocked messages, they will automatically be deleted after 14 days.

Logging Out

To log out of the Puremessage Spamblock system, click on the Log Out menu option on the left side menu bar.