How to Block or Allow a Sender or Domain on SpamTitan

This article will walk you through the steps on how to Allow (always approve) or Block (reject) a specific sender address or an entire domain name for your Anu Hosted Email account. This can be useful to prevent SpamTitan from quarantining emails from specific senders or to instruct it to block senders from which you frequently receive spam.

1. Using your email credentials, log into the following URL: https://spamtitan.anu.net

2. If you have Domain Administrator access to your account, you may be prompted to select the access level.  Click User to view your personal quarantine and settings.

3. Click on the Filter Rules tab.

  1. Click on User Allow List or User Block List, depending on the type of entry you would like to add.
  2. The first section, Blocked Email Addresses or Allowed Email Addresses, include sender email addresses that have been Blocked or Allowed respectively.

6. The second section, Blocked Domains or Allowed Domains, includes sender domains that have been Blocked or Allowed respectively.

7. To add a new entry for Block List or Allow List, click the Add button under the respective section.

8. Enter the sender’s Email Address or Domain as appropriate.  The Comment field is optional.

9. Click the Save button to add the listing.

How to set up your Anu Hosted Email account on Mozilla Thunderbird

First Open Mozilla Thunderbird and click on the “Local Folders” at the left pane then under “Set Up Another Account” from the main pane of the app. Click on the “Email” button to add your email account, see screenshot below:

A pop-up will show asking for the login credentials. You have to fill in the information first before you will be able to click on the “Configure Manually..” button from the lower part of the pop-up screen then click on it.

See screenshot below:

Then you will see the settings for IMAP/POP below the login information,

For Incoming server details: Server: mail.anu.net – Port: 993 – SSL: SSL/TLS – Authentication: Auto Detect – Username: your@email.com

For SMTP server details: Server: mail.anu.net – Port: 587 – SSL: STARTTLS – Authentication: Auto Detect – Username: your@email.com

See screenshot below:

Then click on “Done” button.

Enjoy your Anu Hosted Email account with Mozilla Thunderbird app.

Anu votes to support Nominet Public Benefit Initiative

Anu have been a member of Nominet, the registrar for .uk domain name registrations, for longer than I can remember (the oldest domain in our account dates from 1994!). We have witnessed the rapid development of the domain name industry since the early days of the Internet. During this time a lot has changed at Nominet, and we’re just not convinced all of the recent changes are for the better.

I would like to thank Mr. Simon Blackler for giving a voice to dissatisfied Nominet members and organising a campaign to force an extraordinary general meeting, with a view to reorganising the board and refocusing Nominet on their core purpose.

That’s why we are backing the PublicBenefit.uk campaign and will be voting YES at the EGM on Monday 22 March.