Email and Spam Fighting Tools

It's claimed that 90% of all e-mail today is spam. Fortunately, we are able to eliminate most of that before it even hits our servers. It's really a game of defense. We block them, they try new tactics, and we block those. Most of our users do not get much spam.

The Process

All email first passes through our automated filters that detect suspected junk email and known viruses. These filters are automatically updated several times a day. While occasional spam may still get through our experience shows that over 97% of junk mail is deleted and will never hit your inbox. Once you complete setting up your account and point your domain to our name servers, you are protected under our spam filters. We proactively manage this to keep on top of the bad guys. However, you should still run anti virus software on all local machines.

Keeping your personal machine clean is also important. Be careful about what you agree to in the terms of service on those 'free service offers'. Sometimes, the agreement is to 'opt - in' your e-mail address to multiple mailing services. That's not spam - you agreed to it.....

One tool many smart webmasters use is to encrypt any e-mail addresses on your website. While not a total solution, it can prevent automated web crawlers from easily finding your e-mail address.