Facilities provided with Zexie Email Addresses.

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Overview of the Email Facilities

Zexie's professional email package provides the user with a Primary Email Address, A Secondary Email Address and a group of 5 Disposable Email addresses. Each of these email addresses comes with their own email boxes and with their own Control Panels.

Email Addresses

We only have a small number of email addresses on each domain. This means that most users are able to have their choice for the User ID part (the part of the email address before the at '@' symbol) of their email addresses.

You get to choose your addresses for each (primary, secondary or group) but the group of disposable email addresses must be consecutive on one letter. You choose one of the letters in the User ID of the disposable email address (marking it with a hash symbol) and as we create the email boxes we will use the numerals 1 to 5 for that letter.

Allowing Other Users to use your Email Boxes

With the multiple email boxes you are able to allow someone else to use one or more of the email addresses with all of its facilities. Each one, including the disposable email addresses, has its own control panel. The main condition relating to this is that you are responsible to ensure that they obey all the terms and conditions. It should also be noted that we only deal with the owner of the account for all support requests and similar.

File Space

We give you plenty of file space for your mail boxes so you're not likely to find a mailbox overflowing, even if you don't look at it over your holidays. The primary email box is given 70Meg, the second email box is given 70Meg and each of the disposable email boxes is given 10Meg each.

Control Panels

Each email box (including the disposable email addresses) is given a full control panel. When entering this control panel it will ask for your 'user name' and 'password'. Use your full email address as your user name. You may replace the at (@) symbol with a plus (+) symbol if you want. Facilities available from each control panel include the following:

Security

The Control Panels can optionally be logged into as a securely encrypted session. Similarly, the web mail programs that we offer can be used within a securely encrypted session.

This is implemented in a similar manner to that used for typical internet purchasing. It ensures that nobody between you and the email server computer can see what you are uploading, downloading or setting up.

Web Mail Programs

Web Mail Programs are programs that allow you to read, organize or send email using your Internet browser. You don't need to download these programs onto your computer as they run on the email server. These programs just work immediately from the time your email addresses are set up.

The two programs that are currently being given free are Horde and SquirrelMail.

Horde

In our opinion Horde is the best of the web email programs. It has all the facilities that you would expect plus more. This includes many advanced facilities such as the ability to set up securely encrypted communications to other users using PGP.

For Spam control, Horde works well with both Spam Assassin and BoxTrapper (see Spam section for more info on Spam Assassin & BoxTrapper.) plus it has some of its own facilities for handling spam.

SquirrelMail

SquirrelMail is a simpler web email program that is commonly used elsewhere. Note that at present this program lacks the filters needed to use it with Spam Assassin but it can be used in conjunction with BoxTrapper (see Spam section for more info on these spam control products).

Spam Control Facilities

Each email box has a complete series of programs designed to help you fight spam. This includes 'Spam Assassin', 'BoxTrapper' and finally as the ultimate Spam killer, Disposable Email Addresses.

BoxTrapper

For many people BoxTrapper is almost the perfect way to handle spam. It cuts out almost all spam yet gives you all the email you want to receive. Regardless of this, it is not suitable for everyone. If you expect to get lots of enquiries from people that you don't know then its probably not a good choice. In this case you should use Spam Assassin which is described further on.

Getting BoxTrapper starting requires a little work. The normal method is to simply place all the email addresses that you have in your address book, plus any other email addresses that you know may contact you, into BoxTrapper's White list.

Once the White list is setup, any email from someone on your white list gets to go straight to your inbox as normal. Any unexpected email from other users goes into a queue and the sender immediately gets sent a verification email reply. This new sender is asked to simply reply to the verification email as confirmation that they are human.

When this unexpected sender replies to the verification email, their original email is taken out of the queue and given to you. Also, their email address is automatically added to the white list so that they don't have to do any more verifications with later emails.

Most spammers give false From: addresses in their email so they can't reply to this verification. The few spammers who do give good From: addresses mainly do not look at the large number of complaint emails that they generate

On very rare occasions you may find that a spammer, or someone else you don't want to receive mail from, actually takes the time to reply to the verification email. In these cases you simply shift their email address from BoxTrapper's white list to BoxTrapper's Black list or Ignore list.

The Black list is almost the same at the Ignore list except that the sender is sent autoreply emails telling them that they are on that list.

The above is only a quick overview of BoxTrapper. BoxTrapper comes with a lot of facilities such as option settings, forwarding options, logging and the ability to review the queue etc.

For example, the lists (white list, ignore list etc) allows you to specify Subject:, or To; or Cc: addresses etc as well as the From: addresses. Place into the white list a Subject: with just your name on it and then when telling a new person your email address get them to use that as the Subject: line. The email from this new person will go directly to your inbox even though you haven't gotten around to adding their address into the white list.

BoxTrapper works regardless of whether you are using one of our great Web Mail Programs or are downloading your email to a Client Email program on your Personal Computer. It has an additional advantage if you are downloading to your PC as it stops the spam before you download it. You only download the Ham (the good emails).

The major aspect that you need to recognize is that BoxTrapper is probably the best possible spam eliminator when the majority of the email that you want to receive is from people who have previously sent you email, or email lists that you want to be on, or people who will continue to send you further email. If, on the other hand, the majority of your email is from prospective clients or similar so that you can't anticipate most of the email addresses, then you are better to just use Spam Assassin.

Spam Assassin

Spam Assassin is considered one of the best spam finding programs available. It is an intelligent program which uses a diverse range of tests to identify Spam. It has one of the highest accuracy rates in finding spam with the lowest possible rate of misinterpreting good email (ham) as being spam. See the Spam Assassin Website for more information.

We have setup Spam Assassin for all email accounts so that it marks all incoming email that it believes are spam. When it marks the email that it believes is spam it gives it a spam rating. It shows this spam rating on the subject line as a {SPAM;n.n} where n.n is the spam rating. The current setting is for all email with a spam rating of 5.0 or greater to be marked by Spam Assassin.

Spam Assassin also shows its spam rating in a header called 'X-Spam-Level'. This header is normally hidden but you should be able to see it if you get your email program to show 'all headers' or show source. In the case of this header, the spam level is shown using a number of asterisks (*). The great part of this is that it allows easy integration with almost all email client programs or with the Horde web mail program.

Each of these programs have a filter system. Showing the options with this is easiest explained by detailing how this writer uses it.

I set one of the filters in my email program so that if any email has an X-Spam-Level with more than 10 asterisks in it, the email is simply deleted. I then set a second filter so that if any of the remaining email has an X-Spam-Level of 7 or more asterisks, it is shifted into a separate spam folder. Remaining email marked as likely to be spam but with only 5 or 6 asterisks is left in my inbox so that I can see the sender email address and header.

Having different levels allows a far higher percentage of spam to be gotten rid of while minimizing the risk of inadvertently missing good email.

Disposable Email Addresses

Disposable email addresses allow you to hand out an email address to the various lists and newsgroups that you subscribe to and at the various web sites that require one in order to use their facilities and yet not be cursed with the spam that so often follows.

These addresses normally have their mail forwarded to the actual email address or addresses that you really use. As soon as you start getting spam or other unwanted communications you just delete that email address.

If you run out of or run low on disposable email addresses, you are welcome to ask for more. We are giving these to our Email Account holders for nothing. When we get a request for more disposable email addresses we expect to be deleting some of the previous disposable email addresses. Please include with your request the email addresses that you are finished with.

Professional Facilities

All the email boxes have all the facilities you would expect from a professional email service plus more. You can use the email from your current email client program (such as Outlook Express) or you can use it through your Internet Browser. Use your client program when at home and the internet browser when on holidays.

As well as the traditional POP3 protocol we also offer IMAP. IMAP is a newer protocol which is better designed to allow you to download email using your email client at home yet still give you access to the same email when you go to work the next day, or vice versa.

Privacy

Regardless of the low price for these great email addresses, we do not use them for any third party advertising or supply our email lists to anyone else. See our Published Privacy Statement for full details. The price you pay here is the full price required to supply this Professional Email Service.

If you are happy with the facilities of your current mail box but would just love to use some of our email addresses … Fine, just tell us that when you order and we will set it up for you so that all email is forwarded to your current email box.

Ordering

To order these email accounts, fill in the details on our Order Details Form and then return to eBay and make the actual purchase and payment.

Please review our Terms and Conditions as well as our Privacy Statement.

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