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Box Trapper Discontinued as of April 16, 2009

Box trapper is also available for your use and can be activated in your control panel. (Click on the MAIL icon, and then "Boxtrapper Spam Trap" as shown below).  This feature offers the best protection where an automatic response is sent to everyone who emails you.  It requires that all senders identify themselves before the message reaches the inbox on your website server.  Verification proves that the sender is a "real" person and not a spammer who is hiding their identity.

Be careful in using such a service.  There may be legitimate email that you need to receive, which may not be sent to you manually by a human.  For example, if you use "Forgot Password" features on websites such as Ebay, Paypal, etc., verification links are sent automatically by their servers.  Another example is any order confirmation from online stores you may purchase things from.  Order receipts are sent "automatically" by the vendor's shopping cart...not by a human.  You may not receive emails like this, as automatic emails cannot be verified.

Fighting Spam from your PC

There are many spam filtering services and/or software for your PC which make it possible for you to use the same filtering method locally, regardless of how many pop accounts you access, which may be provided by one or more ISPs. (i.e. personal@earthlink.com, myname@blackberry.com,  sales@mydomain.com, me@mydomain.com, etc)  These can include your personal ISP account, your wireless provider's pop account, and all pop accounts created through your website hosting account.   This also allows you to make a separate folder in Outlook and create rules where all spam is sent to a central location (regardless of which account it came from).

Email Address Encryption May Fight Spam

Many of you have mature websites and are likely enjoying a high user hit rate. Those sites which have been around for some time are valued by the search engines and are favored over newly published sites with regard to rank. Unfortunately those mature websites which were developed 1 or more years ago probably have an email hyperlink in the footer of every page, which has likely been harvested by malicious robots that collect addresses and sell them in spam lists. As a result, the amount of spam you receive may be getting out of control.

Spam has always been a nuisance, but last year we battled more serious consequences than a mere nuisance. Some of you who used domain name forwarders which send email from your website to your ISP's email address were even banned by your own ISPs, who falsely accused your domain name as the originator of spam.

To prevent this and other problems from happening, we are offering the implementation of an encryption code to the mail-to link on your website. This work is free of charge to all standard and executive account service levels, and is $45 per encryption for basic business and basic hosting account service levels. If you have an email hyperlink published on your site, and wish to have it encrypted, please open a ticket on our help desk. We will be encrypting on a first-come first-served basis.