If you have an email account you will receive spam. That’s a fact unless you are very, very careful using it. If you sign up on websites, even respectable ones like big shopping sites, there is a chance that you will eventually receive spam. If you reply to emails or send out emails chance is [...]

Categories: Email

If you are using a desktop email client like Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird you know that the antispam capabilities are limited to that one client. This can be a problem if more than one email client is used on the computer. But there is another problem. What if the antispam module of the desktop [...]

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Junk mail is always a pain to deal with. Some junk mail may be stuff you actually sign up for and lost interest in. Spam, however, is stuff that you never signed up for and is often sent to you after some bot saw your email address on some site. Nobody like spam. The guy [...]

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The idea behind Otherinbox is to provide an easy to manage email service for marketing offers and all those community websites and networks. The service provides a web interface and an email address to every user who signs up for the service. The main selling point of Otherinbox is the automatic generation of mail filters [...]

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Do not publish your email on the Internet. That’s is one of the first lessons to learn when you start using the Internet. Once your email has been cached by a search engine it will sooner or later be discovered by bots that crawl the Internet for this valuable information. All kinds of protection have [...]

Categories: Email, Online Services

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 [...]

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I read about this tip yesterday at Digital Inspiration and when I woke up today I saw that Lifehacker wrote about it as well. The tip mainly stated that users who signed up for Gmail would not get one but two mail addresses: user@gmail.com and user@googlemail.com. The suggestion was to give on out to friends and use the other for all the other signups and conversations on the Internet.

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Email spam is so common these days that it has become a part of our live to wade through the spam to identify the real emails that have been sent to our mail account. It can be a challenge for the average user sometimes while IT-professionals and experienced users identify legit and fake emails at a glance .

Categories: Browsing, Email, Firefox, ie, Security

You need to use the tools of the trade to check if your website is revealing emails from visitors or yourself. Most webmasters have a contact form somewhere on the page which is sometimes revealing the real email address of the webmaster. But even tricks like adding spaces to the email address, a REMOVEME part, writing (at) instead of @ and other means are recognizable by some email harvesters that do nothing else but to harvest websites and the websites that they link to for new email addresses.

Categories: Security, Software, The Web