Stay Off Spam Lists
First, stay off spammers' lists if you can help it. Use a disposable address for any sign up that requires an email and you don't really care about their products or messages. Contests, promotions, news sites, shareware sites, download sites and web registration required for content access are places to use your disposable email address. I use a netscape account which I check every month and empty when it fills up with spam. This is my email PO Box.
Many sites cannot be trusted to keep your personal information to themselves. Your private information is a source of income to them. If you're a web designer or developer, use this code to obscure your clients' email addresses from spam harvesting robots. get code.
Our Premium Messaging Services help you avoid malicious and annoying content from ever reaching your private inbox.
How Server-Side Anti-Spam Features Work
As part of our Premiuim Messaging Service, we use robust open source software to impliment our spam policy. Here's an overview of how it done.
- When mail from the internet first reaches our servers it is checked against several RBL's (Realtime Blackhole Lists). If the mail originated from a known spammer or open relay, it is bounced from our system.
- Next, a check if performed to see if the email is addressed to a real person, not some automatically generated jumble of letters. These random addresses are rejected.
- Real mail from a server that isn't listed in the RBL's passes through the gateway, and is evaluated by our scanner. It is first checked for known viruses, then scanned for SPAM content.
- If a virus is found, the message is rejected and the sender is notifed.
- Note: See the Terms of Service and Hosting Agreement for more on our anti-spam and anti-virus policy. more
- If the message is clean of viruses, it is then analyzed for SPAM. Durastudio does not alter the message content in any way, a header is added indicating it's SPAM status. Any further action is left up to the recipient to deal with as they please.
You can choose to setup your mail client so that it moves a tagged message to a special folder, deletes, or ignores it. If you want to ignore it, stop reading and go back to whatever you were doing. If you want to cut down your SPAM 60%-95%, keep reading.
Generic instructions for trapping your SPAM:
It's best to have your email client move the tagged messages to a special folder, other than immediately deleting. You can then check for any misses... it would be a shame to automatically delete legitimate messages.
- Create a new folder, name it SPAM.
- Configure Client: Open the message filters (or equivalent) dialog box.
- Create a new message filter, name it SpamAssassin.
- Then create a new email header, call it "X-Spam-Status". A new header will then be available in the drop down list for your filter.
- Click on the match line and select the header you just made: "X-Spam-Status". Next make sure the comparison is "Contains" and the value to check against is "Yes," (make sure you include the comma).
- Next, we need to tell the software what to do with messages that are tagged "Yes,". Click "Move To Folder" or "Move", and then select the new SPAM folder you just made.
Now, when you get your mail, your email client will look in the message headers for "X-Spam-Status" with a value of "Yes," and move matching messages to your SPAM folder.
Make sure you check the SPAM folder before emptying.
