Archives: Email

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Transitioning from the Underscore to the Dot

In 2013 a new feature is coming to Carleton.ca email addresses: a dot. At the moment, official email addresses use an underscore (_) to separate first and last names.  In the new year, the dot (.) will replace the underscore as a separator. Both firstname_lastname@carleton.ca and firstname.lastname@carleton.ca will be accepted as incoming mail. ... More

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

New Feature coming to Carleton.ca email addresses

In 2013 a new feature is coming to Carleton.ca email addresses: a dot. At the moment, official email addresses use an underscore (_) to separate first and last names.  In the new year, the dot (.) will replace the underscore as a separator. Both firstname_lastname@carleton.ca and firstname.lastname@carleton.ca will be accepted as incoming mail. ... More

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Phishing Attempt: Critical Update: Microsoft Firewall…

We have had reports of a new phishing attempt that is circulating on campus. If you have received an email with the subject Critical Update: Microsoft Firewall And Security Center 0911 please do not respond to it and do not click on the link within the body of the email. This is a phishing... More

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Phishing Attempt with Subject: TD Canada Trust…

We have had reports of a new phishing attempt that is circulating on campus. If you have received an email with the subject TD Bank (Important Tax Refund Notification), please do not respond to it do not click on the link within the body of the email. This is a phishing email and should... More

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

BlackBerry – Unable to send email – Resolved

Problems are being experienced with sending email messages from the BlackBerry server.  This is being investigated. Update:  This issue has now been resolved.  Full service was restored at... More

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Phishing Attempt

If you receive an email with the subject 'Reducing Spam', please do not respond to it and do not click on the link within the body of the email. This is a phishing email and should be deleted. If you have already responded to this email, please change your password... More

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

New Phishing/SPAM Attempt with Subject of: REDUCING SPAM

A new phishing attempt is circulating on campus. If you have receive this email, please do not respond to it.  Do not click on the link within the body of the email.  Carleton University does not send out these types of email messages.  It is Carleton University’s policy to ‘never’ request this kind of information through... More

Monday, April 11, 2011

New Phishing Attempt with Subject: Upgrade Your Webmail Account

A new phishing attempt is circulating on campus.  This attempt appears to be sent from Carleton University and appears to have a valid email address and a valid link within the body of the message.  If you have receive this email, please do not respond to it.  Do not click on the link within the... More

Monday, December 20, 2010

Phishing Attempt – ATTENTION!

If you receive an email message “From: System Administrator [mailto:info@administrator.com]” and with the Subject of ATTENTION.  DO NOT click on the  “ mailto: “ email address link or any links within the body of the message. This is a phishing email and should be deleted immediately.  If you have already responded to this email,... More

Friday, December 10, 2010

Exchange Server Maintenance, Thursday @ 6:45PM

We will be performing routine maintenance on the Exchange servers beginning at 3:00PM on Friday, December 10th. The work should be completed by 11:00PM. Between 3:00PM and 5:00PM we will be patching the inactive (passive) nodes of the Exchange clusters. At 5:00PM we will move the servers to their alternate nodes in order to... More

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Phishing Attempt – Subject: Notice

If you receive an email message “From: Carleton University Webmail Administrator [mailto:webadmin@carleton.ca]” indicating that “You have almost exceeded your webmail storage quota. To avoid account deletion, please click on the link below…”.       This is a phishing email and should be deleted immediately.  If you have already... More

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Carleton Central Phishing Website

If you receive an email message requesting that you visit www.centralcarleton.ca, please do not visit this website.  This is a phishing website and is not affiliated with Carleton University’s Carleton Central service. The correct website address for Carleton Central is http://central.carleton.ca  If you have already visited this website,... More

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