All About AntiSpam Software

We will never share, sell, or rent your personal information with anyone without your advance permission.

How often have you come across this line. If you ask me, I would say that I see this almost everytime I register for something online. But still, I doubt if each one of those people getting your personal information ever stick to their word. If they had , there would never exist anything called spam.

If you use the POP email capability of the hosting company where your web site resides, there is a good chance that you may have overlooked an easily cured spam problem.

Most hosting companies include 50 or 100 email accounts with any hosting plan offered. Multiple email accounts can come in very handy - you can create separate email destinations for various functions such as new orders, customer service, technical questions. If you use email accounts in addition to the default email account created when you set up your hosting plan, you could unknowingly find yourself with a big spam problem.

Spam will continue spreading as far as it makes profit. If nobody buys from spammers or acts upon their scams, spam will end. This is the obvious and easiest way to fight spam. You can ignore and delete spam emails you receive. But you can also take vengeance on the spammer by complaining to the spammer's Internet Service Provider (ISP). The ISP will block their connection and maybe impose a fine (depending on the ISP's acceptable usage policy). Spammers beware of such complaints and try to disguise their messages. That's why finding the right ISP is not always easy.

Let’s look inside a spam message. Every email message includes two parts, the body and the header. The body is the actual message text and attachments. The header is a kind of the envelope of the message. The header shows the address of the message sender, the address of the message recipient, the message subject and other information. Email programs usually display these header fields: