gHacks technology news » akapost http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:14:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Five Free Akapost Plus Upgrades For Grabs http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/21/five-free-akapost-plus-upgrades-for-grabs/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/21/five-free-akapost-plus-upgrades-for-grabs/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:31:52 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6354 I covered the email provider Akapost about ten days ago and liked what it had to offer. It was not your usual Gmail / Yahoo Mail kind of provider but one that would put an end to email spam to your mail inbox. This was achieved by acting as a proxy between the user’s email account and the destinations.

The user would create an Akapost email account at their website and link it to one of his real email accounts. Whenever he wanted to signup on a site he would use the Akapost email account which would forward all incoming mails to his account.

Mails that he wanted to send could be send to Akapost first which would forward them to the email recipient. This effectively means that no sender or website is able to uncover the real email address of the user. Akapost featured a few additional options, just read my initial article if you are curious.

Free accounts can be created at Akapost which are good for one email link. I had a chat with the guys at Akapost and they told me that they would give me five free account upgrades to Akapost Plus which is good for 5 Akapost email addresses and 10 links.

The service usually costs $22.95 per year but five lucky Ghacks readers pay nothing to get it. You need to have an Akapost username. If you want to upgrade your account let me know in the comments. I pick five commenters in the coming days who will get the free upgrade. Regular commenters and visitors will be precedented.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/21/five-free-akapost-plus-upgrades-for-grabs/feed/ 17 Protect Your Email With Akapost Email Services http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/12/protect-your-email-with-akapost-email-services/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/12/protect-your-email-with-akapost-email-services/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:20:26 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6075 Akapost is an Email services provider that protects your own email addresses with an ingenious system. The senders email address is shown when emails are received. Akapost acts as an Exchange station between your computer and that of the recipient by exchanging your email address with a selected one from Akapost (via Archer and Anewmorning).

The recipient will only see the Akapost email address and reply to that which in turn will exchange the received emails to the right address and send them on their way.

Two other uses for Akapost Email services are listed on the homepage of the Email provider. It can be first used to unify email addresses by connecting all your email addresses with one outgoing Akapost email address. Akapost furthermore supports custom email addresses which are great for businesses who want to mask employee email addresses.

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Another possibility would be to create dummy email addresses for signups and the like. The basic Akapost email service is free and allows you to protect one email address.

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