How To use the 4J email Spam filter
This guide describes how you can use the Barracuda Email Security Gateway web interface to:
Check your quarantined messages
Classify messages as Spam and Not Spam
Manage Allow List and Block List for email addresses
Modify your User Preferences
Email summary report (digest):
The Barracuda Email Security Gateway sends you a daily quarantine summary report so you can view the quarantined messages you did not receive. From the quarantine summary report you can also add messages to your Allow List, delete messages, and have messages delivered to your inbox.
Logging into the quarantine interface:
Enter https://barracuda.4j.lane.edu/cgi-mod/index.cgi in your web browser to access the Barracuda Email Security Gateway web interface.
Enter your username and password, and click Login.
After logging into the quarantine interface, select the QUARANTINE INBOX tab to view a list of your quarantined messages. Below is the list of actions you can perform in your quarantine inbox.
Action
Description
Deliver
Delivers the selected message to your standard inbox.
Note: If you want to classify a message or add it to your Allow List, make sure to do so before delivering the message to your inbox. Once the Barracuda Email Security Gateway delivers a message, it is removed from your quarantine list.
Allow List
Allow List adds the selected message to your Allow List so all future emails from this sender are not quarantined unless the message contains a virus or banned attachment type.
The Barracuda Email Security Gateway adds the sending email address exactly as it appears in the message to your personal Allow List.
Note that some commercial mailings may come from one of several servers such as mail3.abcbank.com, and a subsequent message may come from mail2.abcbank.com. See the section on managing your Allow Lists and Block Lists for tips on specifying Allow List entries with greater effectiveness.
Delete
Deletes the selected message from your quarantine list. The main reason to delete messages is to help you keep track of which quarantine messages you have reviewed. You cannot recover messages you have deleted.
Classify as Not Spam
Classifies the selected message as not spam. Note: Some bulk commercial email may be considered useful by some users and spam by others. For this reason, classifying such messages may not be very effective because users may counteract each others’ classification. Instead of classifying bulk commercial email, it may be more effective to add it to your Allow List (if you wish to receive such messages) or Block List (if you prefer not to receive them).
Classify as Spam
Classifies the selected message as spam.
Use the PREFERENCES tab to modify your quarantine and spam settings, and manage your Allow List and Block List. You can also change your password but it is not recommended to perform a password reset here. We use the Rapid Identity system for password management located at https://ri.4j.lane.edu.
Changing Your Quarantine Settings
The following table describes the quarantine settings you can change from the PREFERENCES > Quarantine Settings page:
Quarantine Setting
Description
Enable Quarantine
Whether the Barracuda Email Security Gateway quarantines your messages.
If you select Yes, the Barracuda Email Security Gateway does not deliver quarantined messages to your general email inbox, but you can view these messages from the quarantine interface and quarantine summary reports.
If you select No, all messages that would have been quarantined for you are delivered to your general email inbox with the subject line prefixed with [QUAR]:. The Barracuda Email Security Gateway administrator can modify this prefix.
Notification Interval
The frequency the Barracuda Email Security Gateway sends you quarantine summary reports. The default is daily. The Barracuda Email Security Gateway only sends quarantine summary reports when one or more of your emails have been quarantined.
If you select Never, you can still view your quarantined messages from the quarantine interface, but you will not receive quarantine summary reports.
Notification Address
The email address the Barracuda Email Security Gateway should use to
deliver your quarantine summary report. Leave this field blank to use the email address associated with your user account.
Default Language
The language in which you want to receive your quarantine notifications.
This setting also sets the default encoding for handling unknown character sets during filtering. All email notifications from the Barracuda Email Security Gateway are in UTF8 encoding.
Adding Email Addresses and Domains to Your Allow List and Block List
The PREFERENCES > Allow List/Block List page lets you specify email addresses and domains from which you do or do not want to receive emails.
List Type
Description
Allow List
The list of email addresses or domains from which you always wish to receive
messages. The only time the Barracuda Email Security Gateway blocks a message from someone on your Allow List is when the message contains a virus or a disallowed attachment file extension.
Block List
The list of senders from whom you never want to receive messages. The Barracuda Email Security Gateway immediately discards messages from senders on your Block List. These messages are not tagged or quarantined and cannot be recovered.
The sender does not receive a notice that the message was deleted, and neither do you. The only time a Block Listed email address is delivered is if the same email address also appears in your Allow List.
To add senders to your Allow List or Block List, follow these steps:
Go to the PREFERENCES > Allow List/Block List page.
A list of the email addresses on your Allow List and Block List appears on this page.
To delete an Allow List or Block List entry, click the trash can icon next to the address.
To add an entry, type an email address into the appropriate field and click the Add button.
For more information, see the full user guide - https://campus.barracuda.com/product/emailsecuritygateway/doc/9011827/barracuda-email-security-gateway-user-s-guide/