Email Policy

Version 3.1

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Owner and operator

City of Innsbruck Municipal Department-I, City Department Information technology and communication technology.

Guidelines for incoming e-mail traffic

  • Document formats:
    All e-mails that do not comply with the permitted formats will not be delivered. An automatically generated message is sent to the sender stating that the e-mail could not be delivered. In this case, resend the e-mail with a valid file format.
  • E-mail size limit:
    E-mails that exceed a size of 15 MB including attachment will not be accepted.
  • Number of recipients:
    Incoming e-mails that exceed the maximum number of 50 recipients will not be delivered.
  • Encryption:
    Encrypted e-mails will not be accepted for security reasons (this also applies to all encrypted or password-protected file attachments or sub-components).
  • Viruses and malware:
    E-mails that are recognized by the antivirus system of Magistrat as virus-infected will not be accepted or will be deleted immediately. The sender will not be notified.
  • SPAM handling:
    A two-stage approach is used for SPAM defense:
    • All emails with a Source Adresse listed on zen.spamhaus.org are not accepted as potential SPAMMER! A corresponding error message will be sent to the sender!
    • All other emails classified as SPAM will be quarantined and deleted or delivered by the recipient after checking.
  • Organization-related e-mail addressesdressen:
    When communicating with the departments of the City of Innsbruckmagistrate, please use organization-related e-mail addressesdressen, such as those published on the website www.innsbruck.gv.at or found on mail signatures. This ensures that your request will be processed regardless of the availability of a specific administrator.

Guidelines for outgoing e-mail traffic

  • Digital signature, official signature
    No outgoing emails from the city ofmagistrat are currently digitally signed. However, e-mails may contain officially signed documents as attachments.

Communication with certain defined partners is exclusively encrypted.

Allowed formats for file attachments

You can send the following document formats by e-mail to the departments of the City of Innsbruck:

TypeNameSuffix
TextASCI (ISO 8859-1), UTF-8*.TXT, *.TEX, *.XML, *.XSL, *.CSV
DocumentPortable Document Format*.PDF
Rich Text Format*.RTF
MS Office Word*.DOC, *.DOCX
MS Office Excel*.XLS, *.XLSX
MS Office PowerPoint*.PPT,*.PPTX
Message format*.MSG
Postscript*.PCL, *.PS
Graphics Interchange FormatGraphics Interchange Format*.GIF
JPEG File Interchange Format*.JPG, *.JPE, *.JPEG
Picture exchange*.PCX
Windows Bitmap*.BMP
Tagged Image File Format*.TIF, *.TIFF
Portable Network Graphics*.PNG
AutoCAD Drawing*.DWG
Drawing Interchange Format*.DXF
Web FormatsHypertext Markup Language*.HTML, *.HTM
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language*.XHTML
Extensible Markup Language*.XML
Cascading Style Sheets*.CSS
CertificatesDER, CER*.DER, *.CER
Certificate Revocation List*.CRL
Privacy Enhanced Mail*.PEM
CompressionZIP FILE*.ZIP
Roshal Archive*.RAR
GNU zip*.GZIP
7Zip*.7Z
OtherWindows Backup File*.BKF
ISO image*.ISO

You will receive the following document formats by mail from the city of Innsbruck:

TypeDesignationSuffix
TextASCI (ISO 8859-1), UTF-8*.TXT, *.TEX, *.XML, *.XSL, *.CSV
Document/PrintPortable Document Format*.PDF
Rich Text Format*.RTF
MS Office Word*.DOC, *.DOCX
MS Office Excel*.XLS, *.XLSX
MS Office PowerPoint*.PPT, *.PPTX
Message format*.MSG
Postscript*.PS, *.PCL
GraphicsGraphics Interchange Format*.GIF
JPEG File Interchange Format*.JPG, *.JPE, *.JPEG
Picture exchange*.PCX
Windows Bitmap*.BMP
Tagged Image File Format*.TIF, *.TIFF
Portable Network Graphics*.PNG
AutoCAD Drawing*.DWG
Drawing Interchange Format*.DXF
Web FormatsHypertext Markup Language*.HTML, *.HTM
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language*.XHTML
Extensible Markup Language*.XML
Cascading Style Sheets*.CSS
CertificatesDER, CER*.DER, *.CER
Certificate Revocation List*.CRL
Privacy Enhanced Mail*.PEM
CompressionZIP*.ZIP
Roshal Archive*.RAR
GNU zip*.GZIP
7Zip*.7Z
OtherWindows Backup File*.BKF
ISO image*.ISO