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Blocking Spam
Spam-Stopper is not hard to use. Simply
follow the instructions below. If you need any help or have any questions, please
feel free to contact our technical support
department.
When using the Spam-Stopper, you have the
ability to give each person that asks you for your email address, an address with
a special host name that belongs to you. This means that you can 'make up' as
many email addresses that you want. Each time mail is sent to your host name,
you get the message no matter what is before the @ symbol.
This anti spam
method, enables you to make up email addresses on the fly for those that ask,
without the need of ever changing configurations or adding email accounts. You
can make up thousands of email addresses and always know who it was that either
gave out your email address, or has sent you email. If you start getting spam
at one of the addresses that you gave out, you can simply turn off that single
email address. This is because you only gave out that email address to one company
or person in the first place. You will not miss any important email and the spam
problem is solved before it ever got started.
Spam Blocking Methods
There
are two main methods for blocking spam while using the Spam-Stopper in regular
mode. The first is to simply click on the "Block SPAM" option found on
the members page. This is the simple automatic blocking option.
The second method is to use the filter option and filter the email header.
Some Spam-Stopper members choose this method so that they can send an autoreply
to the spammer. Instructions for both of these methods can be found below.
Using the "Block
SPAM" Option:
If you start receiving spam, look to see
where it is being sent to. If the spam was addressed to Kmart@your-user-name.spam-stopper.net,
you will know who sold your email address to a list broker. This is because you
gave kmart@ as your email address when a kmart representative asked you for it,
or you used it on one of their online forms.
To solve the problem and
block all future messages to the kmart address, simply go to the Spam-Stopper
member page and click on the option to "Block SPAM". Next, type in kmart
and click on the submit button. You will no longer get any mail that is addressed
to kmart@ and the spam problem has been nipped in the bud. As the email list broker
sells the kmart address to thousands of spammers, you will never get one single
spam to your real email account that was sent to that address.
Using
the Spam-Stopper Filter Option:
Some Spam-Stopper members use the filter
option so that they can send a small message back to the spammers (Auto Response),
or retain use of this MailBox yet block email meeting certain criteria. As like
the method above you will never see the spam message but, you can use a special
bounce back feature that will send your comment back to the spammer.
NOTE:
When using the filter you CAN NOT use the simple "Block
SPAM" method
shown above. You can only choose one single method for each blocked email address.
Setting
Up The Filter:
1. Click on the "Filter this MailBox" option
on the members page.
2. Click on "Add A New Filter"
3. Enter the
email address name that the email was sent to, followed by the @ symbol, into
the "Block Email by Recipient" space as shown below. 
Note:
the example above assumes that the email address that you gave out was hotmailer.
If the email address that is getting spammed is one that you gave out called kmart,
you would replace the above line with kmart@ and then click on Block.
The
@ symbol at the end of the email name needs to be there to tell Spam-Stopper to
block this address at ALL of the Spam-Stopper virtual domains.
Examples
of virtual domains would include:
hotmailer@your-user-name.spam-stopper.net
hotmailer@your-user-name.cyber-space.org
hotmailer@your-user-name.expensiveISP.com
hotmailer@your-user-name.x-email.com
Adding
An Auto Response To The Spammer:
1. After
following the filter instructions above, click on the
"View / Edit /
Remove Filters" option found in the Filter this Mailbox
option menu and
you will see: 
2.
Click on "Advanced View" and put a check in the "Auto Respond"
check box.
3. Next type the message that you want the spammer to see each
time he sends email to this blocked email address. You can type up to 512 characters
into the Response line. The characters ~ # & | [ ] ; " < > ? are
NOT accepted.
After
clicking on the save button, your bounce message will be sent back to the spammer
each time he sends you an email. If however the spammers email bounces, you may
get back a bounce message. You will be able to filter these bounce messages, if
you do not want bounced messages delivered to you.
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