There are a number of reasons you may not receive an e-mail message. Before contacting our help desk, check the following:
- That your correspondent has the correct e-mail address. If they have a typographical error in your e-mail address they will receive a "bounce" notification letting them know this.
- That the message hasn't ended up in your junk-mail folder. U-Mail employs sophisticated spam filtering technologies, but they're not perfect. As such, legitimate e-mail may end up in your junk-mail. See our Spam Filtering page for details.
- That if you have forwarding enabled, you have ‘keep a copy in my inbox’ checked.
We employ a technology called greylisting to further limit spammers ability to abuse your e-mail. For first-time correspondents, greylisting introduces a short delay (typically less than 15 minutes) before the message arrives in your inbox. So if you're expecting a message from a new correspondent, be aware that it may not arrive instantaneously.
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U-Mail is an Enterprise Technology Services service for which Collaborate offers student support. For the latest information about U-Mail see: http://www.umail.ucsb.edu
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