If you send mail using an @maine.edu address and you are not using either our internal email relays, Gmail, or Blackboard this change will affect you. Forging of maine.edu email addresses for purposes of spam or phishing has continued to increase. This has become such a problem around the internet that many organizations are requiring that senders publish lists of valid sources of mail for their email domains. If these lists are not published the mail is likely to be marked as suspicious, spam or rejected outright. The University publishes such a list which explicitly authorizes Gmail, Blackboard and our internal mail relays. However this list says in essence, these are the valid sources, but others are OK. We are going to have to change this to flag others as suspicious. What this means is that if you send mail from other than gmail, Blackboard or through our mail relays using @maine.edu addresses, your mail is likely to be flagged as suspicious or spam. Our intent is to put this into effect starting on Wednesday March 27th. After that date, if you get reports of legitimate email being flagged as suspicious or spam, post a service desk issue to the sysadmin queue and we will do what we can to help. The following link may be useful for administrative bulk mail senders: https://gojira.its.maine.edu/confluence/display/MAIL/Notes+on+Administrative+Bulk+E-mail For those interested in more details about this change: https://gojira.its.maine.edu/confluence/display/MAIL/Tightening+up+SPF+for+maine.edu Please share this email with those you think might be affected or might handle problem reports related to this. -- Irelann Kerry Anderson phone: (207)581-3508 Systems and Operations Information Technology Services University of Maine System 5752 Neville Hall Orono, Maine 04469-5752