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John MillerWVDE Coordinator for Email / Filtering

jpmiller@access.k12.wv.us304.558.7880

Bridgeport, WVApril 7, 2011

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• Everyone must agree to adhere to policy 2460 – acceptable use

• All students and educators must complete application forms

• Educator forms are mailed to WVDE / student forms are kept on file at school / county

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• http://access.k12.wv.us:1026– Request accounts / make changes– Lookup accounts

• http://access.k12.wv.us:1081– Webmail Interface

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• Oulook Settings– POP3 / IMAP: access.k12.wv.us– SMTP: smtp.k12.wv.us (always inside intranet)– SMTPA: smtpa.k12.wv.us (outside of intranet)

• Same authentication as incoming mail• Port 587 (instead of default 25)

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• Storage limitations – 200MB per user– IMAP and Webmail– Graphics, sent mail, trash

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• Upcoming Change– All student accounts aligned to WVEIS IDs– Search by name or ID on 1026 Site

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• Email password security– Never give away your password, even if someone

asks you really nicely– Phishing / scam example

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• Spam / abuse reports

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• Abuse complaints are traced to a local IP address• The responsible county / school is informed of the abuse• Remove the computer from the network until it has been

scanned / fixed

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• Filtering locations– Morgantown / Charleston

• What is filtered– E-Rate, CIPA, COPPA

• Pornography, Profanity and material which may be harmful to minors

• Requesting blocking / unblocking– filtering@access.k12.wv.us

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• Local Filtering (Cymphonix and others)– Overlapping blocking– Copied deny page

• Offline Client– Same filtering as inside intranet

• Investigator Accounts– Bypass WVDE blocked sites like Facebook and

Youtube

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• John Miller – jpmiller@access.k12.wv.us

• Email / spam – abuse@access.k12.wv.us

• Filtering – filtering@access.k12.wv.us

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