Bluebottle spam filter
I have just registered my account at http://www.bluebottle.com , an
email account offering 250 MB of storage and a new type of spam
filtering method for free. It can fetch messages from three external
accounts.
All my mail will still go to my regular account, but I will fetch it
via Bluebottle in the future.
Now what exactly does Bluebottle do?
With Bluebottle you can create a list of allowed and blocked senders.
Mails from addresses on the "allowed" list are delivered as usual,
mails from blocked senders are simply deleted.
This is not new, but hardly used because it usually is a lot of work.
However, Bluebottle found a time-saving method of keeping the lists up
to date:
Email accounts that are on neither of these lists receive a note from
bluebottle which they have to reply to in order to be added to the
'allowed' list. Until they have replied, their messages are stored in
a folder called 'pending'.
The trick is that many spammers use fake emails and CANNOT receive the
mail Bluebottle sends them and so you never get to see the spam mails.
To make it short. If anyone here mails me and gets a strange message
back, it's most likely Bluebottle and you are not yet on my list.
I will let you know how well this works in the future, since I know I
am not the only one who gets far too many spam mails.
email account offering 250 MB of storage and a new type of spam
filtering method for free. It can fetch messages from three external
accounts.
All my mail will still go to my regular account, but I will fetch it
via Bluebottle in the future.
Now what exactly does Bluebottle do?
With Bluebottle you can create a list of allowed and blocked senders.
Mails from addresses on the "allowed" list are delivered as usual,
mails from blocked senders are simply deleted.
This is not new, but hardly used because it usually is a lot of work.
However, Bluebottle found a time-saving method of keeping the lists up
to date:
Email accounts that are on neither of these lists receive a note from
bluebottle which they have to reply to in order to be added to the
'allowed' list. Until they have replied, their messages are stored in
a folder called 'pending'.
The trick is that many spammers use fake emails and CANNOT receive the
mail Bluebottle sends them and so you never get to see the spam mails.
To make it short. If anyone here mails me and gets a strange message
back, it's most likely Bluebottle and you are not yet on my list.
I will let you know how well this works in the future, since I know I
am not the only one who gets far too many spam mails.