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How Spam Filtering Works for OceanMedia Members

How spammers get your email address

When you give retailers or e-tailers your email address

or

Your web site:
If your email address
is on your web site,
spammer "bots" will
find it

The "good"
emails you want to get through

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All email goes here first

OceanMedia
Email Server

mail.oceanmedia.net

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Spam Rating

Green path

OceanMedia uses
advanced spam filtering:

Yellow path

Low

Add "spam-low"
to the subject line
No one solution does it all so we use a combination of the following tools: Add "spam-low" to the subject line

Med

Add "spam-medium" to the subject line - Spam Assassin
- SpamCop
- Bayesian Filtering
- Reverse DNS Lookup
Move to "Junk Mail" folder on the server

High

Add "spam-high" to the subject line - SPF analysis Move to "Deleted"
folder on the server

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Check your webmail when on a trip or to add addresses to your "Trusted Senders" list. image_title Webmail:
Check your mail online using a web browser like Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari. Log in here:
http://
mail.oceanmedia.net

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All mail is labeled (subject line is modified) and passed to your computer

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Handy tip: In your webmail Junk E-Mail folder, checkmark one or more emails, click "ACTION" then "Unmark as Spam" and the senders of those emails will be added to your "Trusted Senders" list.

Only "spam-low" email is passed to your computer

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Your Email Program
(Outlook, Apple Mail, etc.)

 

Your phone or PDA (Blackberry, Treo, etc.)

Create rules in
your email program to automatically move "spam-medium" mail to "junk" or "spam" folder and "spam-high" mail to "deleted
items" folder
Some PDAs have rule-making capability.
If your PDA does not, best to use the "Junk Mail" folder and the "Trusted Senders" area on webmail.