Email Filtering



OWT Mail Filter
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The Spam Problem  
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Your Spambox  
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Spam Scoring  
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OWT Mail Filter: Your Spambox
One of the most powerful features of our mail filter is the spam box. This account acts as a safety net for Email that you wanted but was formatted such that it resembled spam. This is also an invaluable tool during the process of adjusting your mail filter to your optimal settings.

In a nutshell your spambox:

1. Is free to all OWT customers. We don't want you to have to pay more to control spam. Order it here.

2. Is an additional mailbox (mail storage account) for Email that our filter "thinks" is spam.

3. Is automatically expired so you don't even have to delete the mail you find in there. We will do this once each week and delete mail older than two weeks in your spambox.
Checking Your Spambox
Other than the automatic expiration differences, your spambox is a regular Email account. You can check your Email in one of the following ways (in the order we suggest):

1. Using our web mail system. This allows you to scan your spambox easily and forward any wanted mail to your regular account. You can also delete an entire page at a time.

2. Using Pine on our pop3 server. This is for you Unix freaks mostly but you can telnet or ssh to oneworld.owt.com, login and you will enter Pine - a very powerful character mode Email program.

3. Add the account to your normal POP3 mail client. Add the account to your Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape, Mozilla, Entourage or other mail client. We don't like this option as well as this way you have to download the mail.

If you forward spam from our web mail system or from Pine to your regular account our spam filter will deduct several points from the spam score to make sure it is delivered normally.