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Larry M.
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2 Thumbs Up for SpamArrest - 8/22/2007 13:20:14
With SPAM messages averaging some 250 daily (and counting) I recently subscribed to SpamArrest - http://www.spamarrest.com/ - and, now with zero, zip, nada SPAM messages, I'm very happy I did 
Many thanks to Tom Brunt for his recommendation.
How it works: When email is sent to you, it travels across the Internet to your Mail Server (POP Server). Your email program (such as Outlook, Eudora, Outlook Express, etc.) connects to this Mail Server and downloads your email.
When you subscribe to SpamArrest, Spam Arrest logs into your existing mail server(s) and moves all the email to SpamArrest’s servers every two to five (2 to 5) minutes. Your email program is reconfigured to download your email from the Spam Arrest Mail Servers, after it is filtered based on the Challenge-Response verification process. Your email program downloads only the approved emails, while the spam is stored in your Unverified Folder on our web site for 7 days until it is automatically deleted. Mail can also be checked/changed at the SpamArrest server level and "protected" email addresses (up to five) can be color coded.
Challenge-Response / Email Filtering: SpamArrest blocks spam based on the Sender Address (the email address of the person sending the email). There are three (3) types of Sender Addresses: Authorized, Unauthorized and Blocked.
When an email arrives from an unauthorized (unknown) sender, an automated verification email is sent from SpamArrest (can be customized) asking the sender to verify him/herself by clicking on an included link. This link will direct the sender to a webpage which states that Spam Arrest is being used to block unwanted emails, and instructs the sender to type in a short verification word clearly displayed on the page (similar to CAPCHA). Once a sender successfully completes this quick and easy process, all future emails from that sending address are authorized and will be met with no further verification requests from Spam Arrest.
Unverified emails remain stored on the Spam Arrest web site for 7 days, after which they are automatically deleted. You may choose to review these unverified messages at any time should you believe that a sender is not authorizing him or herself, and you may also pre-authorize senders and mailing lists by entering their email addresses individually or by uploading your address book.
Subscribers also have the choice to Block senders. Email from Blocked senders is deleted at the Spam Arrest server level, so you never have to be bothered with knowing it was even there.
Cost (Cheap): $5.95 per month, $24.95 for 6 months, $44.95 for 1 year, or $74.95 USD for 2 years of service. The initial 6 month trial period is billed at $19.95.
Try it, you'll like it 
< Message edited by Larry M. -- 8/23/2007 10:15:17 >
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RE: 2 Thumbs Up for SpamArrest - 8/22/2007 19:22:52
That 7 day retention for the spam seems a little short. Is there a way to retain the spam stuff longer?
I'm finding that every once in a while a legitimate email slips into the spam folder and I don't want to be tied down to checking that folder every 7 days if I am on vacation or away from the computer.
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RE: 2 Thumbs Up for SpamArrest - 8/23/2007 19:13:06
SpamArrest only allows you to store up to 1GB of e-mail, so if you are the kind of person that doesn't like to delete old messages, you may run out of space - there might be an upgrade option to go to a larger inbox, but I didn't see that on their website.
This is a great program, but it delays the time for a response unless the person is on your whitelist. In order for you to even see the e-mail message, you have to wait for the receiver to follow through the whitelist process.
What happens if a new client sends me an e-mail saying "I'm taking off for a couple days, but can you make sure that my website has the new picture?" Once the client sends it, he/she will receive an e-mail, but by then the client could have left. So even though the e-mail was "sent" it still won't be received until the client replies to the confirmation e-mail.
I think spam is something that should be handled by hosting companies and ISPs. I very seldom have any issues with spam these days. In the past 12 days, I have received 5 spam messages from the 18 e-mail addresses I have.
Also, cPanel 11 comes with BoxTrapper, which does the same thing as SpamArrest, except the receiver doesn't go to a link for verification, the receiver replies to the e-mail. Since this is done with your hosting account, you do not need to wait for SpamArrest to check your inbox in order for the e-mail to be processed either.
If your host or ISP can't eliminate the spam, and it would be too much trouble to go somewhere else, this is a great service.
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Larry M.
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RE: 2 Thumbs Up for SpamArrest - 8/23/2007 19:44:42
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What happens if a new client sends me an e-mail saying "I'm taking off for a couple days, but can you make sure that my website has the new picture?" Once the client sends it, he/she will receive an e-mail, but by then the client could have left. So even though the e-mail was "sent" it still won't be received until the client replies to the confirmation e-mail
No, all (except whitelisted) email is stored by SpamArrest in an "Unverified" folder. Initially I had this same concern, but selectively identifying "Unverified" email as "Authorized" which moves it to the SpamArrest Inbox where it can be read or downloaded to your email client solves the problem.
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RE: 2 Thumbs Up for SpamArrest - 8/23/2007 23:54:58
That's a nice feature. Did they add this in the past year or so? I remember looking into them in quite a bit of detail awhile ago, I don't recall this feature back then though.
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Larry M.
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RE: 2 Thumbs Up for SpamArrest - 8/24/2007 7:23:15
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It does pay to check your unverified mail as some people dont verify when challenged
Agree. I routinely cull mail at the SpamArrest web server level, authorizing, blocking and deleting as appropriate.
Color Coding helps to quickly identify and process unverified email. For instance, I assign red, green, blue, yellow and pink (wife) to my five "protected" addresses. The semi-secret "blue" address is used for one business interest only, so I zero-in on that first then check the rest.
As mentioned previously, but bears repeating, SpamArrest will process mail from different servers and, for an additional payment, will protect more than the five email addresses included in the basic subscription fee.
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