Enrolling a Device and Checking “Caught” or “Held” email in Mimecast

Overview 

Mimecast works to:

  • Safeguard sensitive information while ensuring privacy and the security of the WWCC networks
  • Protect against potential email threats such as phishing attempts, malware, and other potential cyber
  • attacks
  • Reduce the amount of spam in campus mailboxes

Steps

Here's additional information on "Enrolling your device" and "Checking caught or held emails."

  • Mimecast requires you to enroll devices to access message links.
  • Device Enrollment Message will appear whenever your email is checked from a different device or whenever the browser's cache is cleared
  • Enter your WWCC email address in the box
  • Enrolling a device is part of the Targeted Threat Protection from Mimecast includes attachment and URL scanning for malicious content to protect the WWCC Network

Mimecast requires you to enroll device

 

A code will be sent to the WWCC email address from WWCC Mimecast Alerts

  • Enter the code

Enter code

 

Your Device was enrolled successfully Message appears

  • NOTE: When the cache or cookies are cleared, the device will need to be enrolled again

Your device was enrolled successfully

 

You have new held messages

  • When message are "caught" or "held," this message appears in your school email
  • Click on Personal Portal or use the sso.wwcc.edu - My apps page
  • A daily digest of messages caught as spam appears in your inbox
  • Messages may be released

If there is an email that is being held and the email is NOT visible in the Mimecast list of new held messages

Please submit a Help Desk ticket, the message queue is constantly monitored and messages are released if appropriate.

you have new held messages

 

sso.wwcc.edu - My Apps page

SSO Portal mimecast personal portal

For more information about the Mimecast's Daily Digest, please check out this link:

https://community.mimecast.com/s/article/email-security-cloud-gateway-digest-email

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