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Reading email through Outlook

Outlook 2010 is the recommended desktop email client on Windows. Other readers such as Eudora or Thunderbird can also be used but won’t give access to calendars and contacts. You may also use a Web browser ; see OWA. Instructions Outlook should already be installed and configured on your machine. If you do not have…

Phishing

(this article was adapted from UMass Amherst) What is Phishing? Phishing refers to different types of online scams that ‘phish’ for  your information such as passwords, social insurance number, bank account information, credit card numbers, etc. These messages claim to come from a legitimate source, sometimes even the College or a friend! They may fake…

All_Dawson

All_Dawson is used to send official messages to all employees. It is typically used by secretaries or managers for notifications of academic events, interruptions of services, etc. Employees cannot opt out of this distribution list. Only managers and their secretaries may send to . Try to have the content as text in the body of…

Email accounts

College employees and students have an e-mail account with domain dawsoncollege.qc.ca with Microsoft 365. E-mails were migrated to Microsoft 365 in Fall 2017. See a document on how to use your email account and compose emails. For more details on using Outlook see the Email User Guide .

Ransomware

There is a relatively new type of virus called ransomware which as it name implies ask for a ransom after performing a malicious action, which is often to encrypt every file it can access from your account (e.g. the network drives). You typically get infected executing an email attachment, or an infected encrypted file. If…

Email spoofing

E-mail spoofing is a term used to describe fraudulent e-mail activity in which the sender address and other parts of the e-mail header are altered to appear as though the e-mail originated from a different source (from Wikipedia). If you have received undelivered emails warnings regarding email you never sent, it is possible you are the…