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Bulk Email Distribution
Unsolicited Electronic Bulk Mail is any unsolicited e-mail communication that is distributed to twenty-five or more people. These e-mail messages are generally for the purpose of communication about topics of interest (for example, Today@Â鶹ÊÓƵ, or the Alumni Update Newsletter), or are intended to solicit information about your experience at Â鶹ÊÓƵ (such as, Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Campus Climate survey).
An Allowed Senders List is a list or collection of people or entities that are known, trusted, or explicitly permitted. In the case of Unsolicited Electronic Bulk Mail, the Office of Information Technology maintains an Allowed Senders List of trusted sources that send messages to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ community.
Allowed Senders Lists are a best practice to defend against cyber criminals using social engineering techniques to convince us to share personally identifiable information, banking information, passwords, and pins. The incidents of these types of attacks, known as Phishing or Spear Phishing, are on the increase. Please read more about Phishing by visiting the web page.
The is posted in full on the University website.
Excerpt: "...[E-mail use] for mass electronic communications (e-mail and others) by any group, unit, or individual requires appropriate approval, typically cabinet official or designee, and will use the appropriate communication tool, as indicted by the type of audience and message."
Please contact the IT Help Desk at 202-885-2550, e-mail helpdesk@american.edu, or , if you are using a third-party tool or have contracted with an outside company to send Unsolicited Electronic Bulk Mail to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ community. Please indicate that you would like to have your sender's address added to the University's Allowed Senders List. You can also request that an Unsolicited Electronic Bulk Mail message be submitted to all or specific parts of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ community through the Office of Information Technology by submitting to the IT Help Desk.
For external senders who wish to either be guaranteed delivery, or who wish to use a "From:" address that contains "@american.edu," you must provide:
- the IP address and host name of the servers from which the messages will be sent
- the name of the company
- the name of the sponsoring organization or department within Â鶹ÊÓƵ
- a company technical contact
If you wish to have the message sent by the Office of Information Technology, you must provide:
- your contact information
- appropriately documented approval from your department
- the message that you wish to send along with its subject header
- the target audience within the Â鶹ÊÓƵ community (for example: All Full-time Faculty or Students living in Anderson Hall)
Please note: you must submit your request 48 hours before you would like it to be sent.
Please contact the IT Help Desk to report any problems at 202-885-2550, e-mail helpdesk@american.edu, or .