SPAM has become one of the most annoying aspects of the internet. It's bad enough that you receive unsolicited e-mail urging you to purchase something -- now I receive e-mail all day long with random jibberish.
Website Forge already checks mail against "blacklists" and uses "rulesets" to help identify SPAM.
A new method of figthing spam is called "greylisting". Most hard core spammers will use special mail server software to blast out SPAM. Because many of the messages sent are rejected for one reason or another -- the spammer's servers generally do not attempt to re-deliver the message. In other words, just one attempt is made to send the spam.
A normal e-mail server will attempt to resend the e-mail several times every few hours or so.
Here is where the "greylisting" comes in. A greylisting server will reject the first attempt of any suspicious email. IF the sending server attempts to re-deliver the same message, the message will be allowed to move to your INBOX.
It's true that some valid e-mail might be delayed at times, however the reduction of spam can be very substantial.
I was receiving up to 50 e-mails per day and after enabling this "greylisting" feature I received only 3 spam messages this morning and 35 valid emails. It works!
To learn more about greylisting you can follow this link: http://greylisting.org/
How do you enable greylisting for your Website Forge e-mail boxes?
Login to your Member's area and go to the "Manage E-mail" area. You can edit individual mailboxes and check the "enable greylisting" checkbox.
REMEMBER! You may experience some delay in e-mail when you enable this feature. However the average delay should be around 2 hours or less and often 15 minutes. This delay depends entirely on the re-send setting of the sender's mail servers.
Shane Merem
www.websiteforge.com
Web Design and E-Commerce
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