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How to avoid Library’s Due Date Reminder Email from going to SPAM folder?

This is to share with you how to create a new filter in your UTAR email to prevent the UTAR Library Reminder Email from going to spam folder. Please follow the following steps:

  1. Login to your UTAR email
  2. Click on “Settings” icon and then choose “See all settings
  3. At settings page, choose “Filters and Blocked Addresses” and then click on “Create a new filter”:


  4. Key in the UTAR domain name “@utar.edu.my” at column “From” and tick the box “Don’t include chats”, then click on “Create filter”:


  5. Tick the box “Never send it to Spam” and then click on “Create filter”:


  6. That’s it! You have done the filtering to prevent the library reminder email from going to spam folder.

Alternatively, check your spam folder regularly in case the reminder email has been accidentally marked as spam. Click “Not spam” to ensure that future message is not fagged as spam.

Please be informed that the email reminder from the Library is just a courtesy reminder to all. There are many ways to keep track of your book due date:


  1. Log in to your library account to check the due date;
  2. Set your own reminder in your preferred ways, i.e. Google calendar, smartphone reminder and etc.;
Please always remember to renew/ return the library book on time to avoid unnecessary overdue fines.

Posted date : 27 October 2020