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Email filters

Domain Support offers email filtering options that allow you to specify who you do and do not want to receive email from. To update your email filter settings visit the "Manage Email" section of your account control panel.

Email filtering options include:

Blocking based on "blacklists": Domain Support subscribes to 5 email blacklists. These companies keep a public list of servers, companies and email addresses that are common sources of unsolicited email. You can select to filter your email based on any or all of these lists.

"Smart" spam detection: You can select to have your messages filtered based on common patterns in the headers or body of your email, as well as large numbers of similar recipients and common Microsoft Outlook exploits. You can also select to block all blind carbon copied (BCC) email, commonly used by spammers.

User defined filters: You can specify email addresses and domains that you always want to receive email from or that you always want to reject email from. You can also specify key words that may appear in the subject, headers, body, etc. of your emails that you want to always accept or always reject.

Confirminator: To completely block unwanted email, use the "Reject all email" in conjunction with the confirminator. The confirminator bounces email back to the sender, giving them the option to confirm themselves as a legitimate email sender.

Once you determine what filters you would like to use, you need to decide if you want to have the email delivered normally to you marked with a "SPAM" label, deleted, or returned to the sender. You can select to backup all rejected email for 10 days. If you find that you have filtered out an email that you wanted to receive, you can select to redeliver the message to your email box.