SPAM filter?

Is DiscountASP planning on implementing any kind of spam filtering at some point? I'm being bombarded by the stuff... Is there any way to implement it on our own?

 

spam filtering is a project currently in progress. Though for years I've been using spamarrest.com to filter other spammy accounts I have.


Joel Thoms
DiscountASP.NET
http://www.DiscountASP.NET

 

Ahh yes. challenge response is a ping PITA, but it works. My options were to continue to receive 5k spams a day, cancel my email account or use spam arrest.

well. I guess the good news is we are currently working on a solution. I do not have an ETA on this because it will become available as soon as it is ready


Joel Thoms
DiscountASP.NET
http://www.DiscountASP.NET

 

Unfortunately that won't work for me. I mean, it would on my personal accounts, but for a business website where you have to publish an e-mail address (which of course draws spam) I think it might put people off if they start getting challenge/response stuff and have to essentially send their e-mail twice.

 

I signed up for the SpamArrest free trial about an hour ago and it worked fine for about 30 mins and now they cannot connect to my mail server. Don't know if it's temporary or not. At first impression, it's great if you use outlook or their webmail so you can specify the From address as your original email, making it transparent to the recipient (other than the verification process). That is obviously important. I'm testing it with my blackberry right now with less success as all emails from the BB are showing the smaparrest address. If I can get that working, then I'll be happy.

Note for anyone wanting to try SpamArrest. Set up your whitelist BEFORE you add a "protected mailbox". Otherwise, it pulls all emails currently in your inbox and sends the verification email to all of them. It makes sense that it's doing what it says it will do, but I didn't think to set up the approved senders first.

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