Management Information Sheet

Since 2009, the NSIX Google mail service has had the added protection of Postini for preventing unwanted email being received in users mailboxes.

Since then, the Postini service has been moving to become an integral part of the standard Google Apps offering, rather than being a separate service and is now at a point where it is being retired by Google themselves. This means that email filtering will now take place directly within Google Apps.

What will change?

• Any email identified as Spam will appear in the Spam section of your mail box. From there, you can mark any senders as valid or leave any unwanted mail in the Spam folder, from where it will be deleted after 30 days.
• People who currently receive the daily summaries of quarantined email will no longer receive these.
• The e-safety monitoring accounts will also be changed, and will become integrated into Gmail for the designated individuals in each school.
• More advice will be available on the ICT Shared Services website about the e-safety monitoring side of Gmail.

What do you need to do.

1. Please ensure all users of Gmail in your school are aware of this change.
2. Provide us with up to date details of the designated individuals responsible for e-safety in your school so they can be set up for the e-mail monitoring:- You can provide this information to us by completing the form at http://goo.gl/forms/zSqs9mC8GF by Friday 23rd of January so we can work with your nominated contact to get your new e-safety monitoring solution in place.
3. Until we have your school set up, any email that would normally transferred to the esafety monitoring mailbox for your school will be delivered to a central mailbox so that any potential issues can be investigated, but this will not be frequently monitored.

If you have any questions regarding this transition, please contact the ICT Service Desk.