Re: FN-FORUM: Boxtrapper

date posted 21st November 2007 12:28

The best solution i have found for all my email addresses is to move
the website related ones to a google apps account.
Comes with 5GB of space, imap, take the load off your server/s,
incredible speed increase and gmails excellent spam filtering. The i
use thunderbird to manage them all, and its excellent spam filter that
you can train to filter spam.

This solution for me filters over 1000 spam emails a day, and i think
i get around 1-2 a week hitting my main inbox. Even those are dropping
because i report them to Google and train Thunderbird to spam them.

On 21 Nov 2007 09:11:14 -0000, Rob Owen [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have become totally pi$$ed off by the amount of spam I have been receiving
> lately.
>
> I do have a spam filter on my mail client, but I want to implement something
> server side.
>
> I was wondering if anyone had used Boxtrapper before, or something similar.
>
> Boxtrapper works by whitelisting verified email addresses and only
> delivering mail from whitelisted sources.
>
> If you were to send me an email and you were not whitelisted then that
> message would be placed in a queue and you would receive an email asking you
> to verify that you are a real human being and not an automated mailer. All
> you need to do to verify your email address is to reply to the verification
> message.
>
> Once verified, your address is added to the whitelist and any queued
> messages are delivered. Verification is required only once.
>
> I know that people are inherently lazy or too busy to be bothered verifying
> their email address and just wondered whether they would be put off by
> having to do this.
>
> I just wanted to know if anyone had implemented a system like this and
> whether they had found a reduction in legitimate mail they were receiving as
> a consequence.
>
> Regards
>
> Rob Owen
>
>
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