In each of the following links we use the Domain 'Zexie.com'. At present, you may directly use the links as shown, as all the email boxes are presently on the same computer. Alternatively, you can replace the Domain 'Zexie.com' in the address with the Domain name of your email address.
The user is initially provided with One Primary Email Address, One 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.
You can access any control panel using the address
http://Zexie.com/webmail
An alternative address is
http://Zexie.com:2095
In either case, when you initially log on, it will ask you for your 'User Name' and password. The user name is your full email address. You can replace the at (@) symbol in your email address with a plus (+) symbol or percentage (%) symbol if that is easier.
Your initial password is the password that you requested when you signed up for the service or will be a password that we have notified you of. Initially, the same password is setup for all your email addresses.
We suggest that the first thing that you should do is setup a secure password for each of your email accounts. You should ensure that the passwords are not dictionary words or standard names that could possible be guessed with trial and error or guessed by having some knowledge about you.
In checking the control panel, we suggest you should read our writeup on BoxTrapper. For a large proportion of our users, this turns out to be the perfect solution to spam. The access to the setup and use of this BoxTrapper is through this control panel.
Client Programs are email programs which run on your PC such as Microsoft's Outlook Express, Pegasus Mail, Eudora or Mozilla Thunderbird. Web mail programs are programs that allow you to use your Internet Browser to access your mail.
In general, Client Email Programs provide better facilities and a better user experience. They also have the advantage that they allow you to access previously downloaded and stored email without accessing the internet.
Most users will already have Microsoft's Outlook Express as it comes bundled with all versions of Windows Operating System. This is a reasonably good email client but if you want a better and more secure client our suggestion is to use Mozilla Thunderbird.
Mozilla Thunderbird is also free and can be downloaded from the Mozilla Thunderbird WebSite. The biggest advantage of this compared to Outlook Express is that virus writers tend to target Microsoft products such as Outlook Express, but it is not the only advantage. Open Source programs such as Mozilla Thunderbird tend to be written with better quality.
In setting up your email client, one question you may be asked is whether to use POP3 (or just POP) protocol or to use IMAP protocol. While both can be used with these email boxes, we suggest that you should use POP3 as it is simpler. You should only use IMAP if you often need access to the same email from multiple locations such as home and work. If you only occasionally need to access the mail from other locations (eg when on holidays) then you can use one of the web mail programs for the occasional use.
Depending on the Client Email Program, the parameters you typically have to give in the setup are as follows:
Most other parameters are fairly obvious such as 'Your Name', Organization or 'Reply Email Address'. Other parameters can normally be left at their default values
With the above 'Server Name', it is best if you replace the 'zexie.com' with the Domain Name used for your email address. For example, if you had an email address of MyGreatEmail@Aussome.com then the Server Name should be 'mail.aussome.com'.
Note that there is normally a setting relating to keeping or deleting mail on the server. You want to delete the mail on the server as soon as you have downloaded it. This is normally the default setting for POP3.
Normally one sets up the client program to download from your new email boxes, but sets it up for sending email (i.e. Outgoing server) so that it sends email using the facilities of your local ISP. You should get the parameters required to setup the Outgoing Server from you ISP.
Should you wish to use these email boxes as an Outgoing server you can. Depending on the program, the parameters you typically have to give in the setup are as follows:
Note: The authentication that needs to be enabled here is authentication for sending mail, not authentication for reading mail or both.
Web Mail allows you to read, organize or send email using an Internet Browser. It is particularly good when you go on holidays and need to access you email from other people's computers.
The two programs that are currently being given free are Horde and SquirrelMail.
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.
You can access Horde from the control panel or you can directly access it at
https://Zexie.com:2095/horde/index.php
If you want a secure encrypted session while accessing the horde email then the address is as follows:
https://Zexie.com:2096/horde/index.php
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.
One special note that you need to become familiar with when using Horde. There are multiple Option screens available. When you select Options, the particular Option screen you get depends on the current context.
Select 'horde' on the left menu then select 'Options' at the top and you get Options that relate to the whole program. Select 'Mail' on the Left menu then Select 'Options' at the top and you get Options relating to mail. It is in these options for mail that you can set the filters to use in conjunction with Spam Assassin.
The Help screens that come with Horde are similarly very context Sensitive.
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).
You can access SquirrelMail from the control panel or you can directly access it at
http://zexie.com:2095/3rdparty/squirrelmail/src/webmail.php
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.
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.
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.
You Enter, Enable and Setup BoxTrapper from the Web Control Panel. See the above section on entering the control Panel
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.
While doing this it is particularly important that you include any email lists that you may be subscribed to. For a lot of these lists, it is the To: address or the Reply-To: address that you need to list. You need to have a look at previous emails from each list and find the part of the header that is constant.
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.
BoxTrapper comes with a lot of facilities such as option settings, forwarding options, logging and the ability to review the queue etc. You should explore these when you first start using it.
Note that 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.
When you first start using BoxTrapper, we suggest that for the first few weeks, you should continue to review BoxTrapper's Queue. This will tell you if you have forgotten to add important addresses into the white list. Once you have been using it for some time, this will probably not be needed.
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 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 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.
We do not have encryption certificates for each of the domains. At present we are using a single certificate under the name of serv.commondns.net. If starting a secure session for the first time you may get a message to this effect the first time you use an encrypted session. If you do get such a message just accept the message and you will go into the fully encrypted session.
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