Southeast Web Group | Online Computer Repair
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Create Mail Accounts:
Create mailboxes in your hosting control panel, Mail, Manage/Add/Remove Accounts. Click add an account to create each mailbox you require. It is best to not give these mailboxes too generic names as bots will target the most common names. An example of a generic name is webmaster@yourdomain.com
Default Address:
Once these are setup, in your hosting control panel go to Mail, Default Address, Set Default Address. Here enter ":fail: no such address here"
and click change. This will setup your account so that any mail sent to a mail account that you have not created to bounce back to the spammer. This also works fantastic in conjunction with our dictionary attack defense system. A dictionary attack is spam sent to common names @yourdomain.com. If a spammer sends to more than four invalid email addresses at your domain they will automatically be blocked from sending mail to the server.
SpamAssassin:
This is located under Mail, SpamAssassin. SpamAssassin is a great tool that analyzes the content of email and marks it as SPAM based on a score system. If an email contains a common subject known for SPAM or contains too many frequent words it will be marked as **SPAM**. An example is "Buy Viagra Now! Click Here"
If you are receiving legitimate email that is being marked as spam you can configure SpamAssassin to accept emails with the subject, from the sender, increase the score it requires to mark it as spam or disable it all together.
BoxTrapper:
BoxTrapper is an excellent tool which requires the mail sender to respond to an email sent back immediately from the server to verify they are sending the email. If you receive a lot of email daily this may be inconvenient. If this is a new account or spam is very bad and you cannot rename your mailbox then this can be a great feature to use.
Email Harvesters/Bots:
There are many programs that go out and scan websites specifically for email addresses. When located they will add the email address to a list which a spammer then uses to send out mail. It is best to never list an email address in text or html link on yours or anyone elses website. If you are using a form on your site make sure the email address is not viewable by the browser. Most very basic html forms require the email address. We suggest creating an image with your email address in it or use an up to date PHP form which hides your email address. You can find many @
http://php.resourceindex.com/Complet...rm_Processing/
Free Link Pages/FFA Sites:
We do not recommend using these pages as your link may only last a few hours and are slammed with hundreds of other links which the search engines dismiss or even score your site negatively as a result. The object of these lists are to aquire your email address so that the webmaster of that site and people under him/her can send you SPAM. If you insist on using and submitting to these types of websites we recommend you create a new email account specifically for submitting and you will receive SPAM in that account instead of accounts you use daily.
