How to Stop Spam on Email

There’s no doubt that almost all of us use email on weekly, if not daily, basis. Although we don’t use emails to connect with friends and family, thanks to several social media websites, but emails are the main communication channel when it comes to businesses. But, there’s always a flip side of a coin. While emails are a great way of getting in touch with your colleagues or contacting an important customer, they also provide a great way for spammers to spam your mailbox as well. And, a lot of these unwanted emails can contain malicious and dangerous programs. So, these unwanted emails can span from an unwanted spam email to an attempt to steal important information about your computer. That is why, it is important to keep an eye on the spam emails.

Spam Emails

Spam emails, without a doubt, are really annoying. Even if they don’t contain any dangerous item, they are certainly something that you don’t want to see. And, a lot of people get hundreds of spam emails on daily basis. Which, to be honest, can be really troublesome and waste a lot of your time.

Now, there are two ways to handle excessive spam emails. The first one is that you just ignore these spam emails and check your spam folder every once in a while. This isn’t very efficient since there’s a risk of missing an important email just because your email provider made a false positive for that email. But, it does work for a lot of people. Plenty of people just simply check their spam folders on daily basis to have a look at the spam emails and check whether or not there’s an important email. A lot of these email providers automatically delete spam emails after a specific interval of time. So, there’s that. It’s not the best but it certainly serves the purpose of filtering your emails and you don’t even have to open the spam emails. If a spam email does get to your inbox then you can simply add it to spam list. This works pretty neatly especially for people who are using email for personal use or for people who don’t get a lot of emails on daily basis.

The second option is to get an anti-spam service. These are more suitable for businesses and business people. When it comes to businesses, you will give your email address to a lot of people. Although the purpose of that is to make it easier for people to get in touch with you but it also attracts a lot of spam email. These type of businesses (or even people) get a lot of emails on regular basis and most of these are spam emails. The anti-spam services will offer spam filters for your mailbox and filter out all the spam emails before they even reach your mailbox. This is a pretty handy way of dealing with spam emails. The most useful feature of these services is that they don’t even let the spam hit your mailbox. This makes things a lot easier for people who have to go through hundreds of spam emails on daily basis.

There are plenty of anti-spam service providers out there on the internet. Just like any other service, some of them are very good and filter almost 90% of your email successfully while there are some mediocre services as well. So, we will present a few anti-spam services that are on the top of their game and are really reliable. You can go through these service providers and see their feature list as well as the pricing. You can then select the one that suits you best.

SpamTitan

SpamTitan provides an anti-spam service at very reasonable prices. SpamTitan provides 3 different products namely SpamTitan Gateway, SpamTitan Cloud and SpamTitan Private Cloud. All of these products have various different features which you can browse to have a look at what will suit you. Most of these are completely cloud based that requires no software installation. The SpamTitan Gateway, however, might require you to perform some software installations.

Features

SpamTitan provides virus protection, spam filters and lots of other features for its users. They have won a lot of awards and have been proved to provide great spam filters and protection from malicious emails. Although they provide a lot of features but we are mainly concerned with the anti-spam features. So, here is a list of a few things that you will enjoy with SpamTitan:

• Multilayered anti-spam analysis.
• Sender Policy Framework (SPF)
• Bayesian analysis
• SASL authentication
• IP protection control
• Content Control for users and administrators
• Double antivirus protection (includes Kaspersky Lab and Clam AV engines)
• LDAP, Dynamic and aliases file recipient verification
• Advanced features for outbound mail scanning and routing

These are, of course, only a glimpse of what you will enjoy with the SpamTitan. There are a lot of other features specific to the products that you will choose.

Products

There are a total of 3 products that you can choose from

• SpamTitan Gateway
• SpamTitan Cloud
• SpamTitan Private Cloud

Pricing

The pricing plan will depend on the services that you will get and the amount of mailboxes. So, you we can’t really give you an idea. If you want to calculate your price then go here and adjust the settings as per your requirements. They will give you an idea about the pricing.

However, you don’t have to worry, SpamTitan offers a 30 day free trial. So, you can check their service to see if it suits your need before committing to anything.

Official Website: https://www.spamtitan.com/

SpamStopsHere

SpamStopsHere is another cloud based solution for your email spams. These are known for their easy to use setup with no learning curve. You can set this up within minutes and start using their spam filtering services. Just like any other cloud based spam filtering service, they will stop the spam and any other malicious mail before it even reaches your mailbox.

Features

SpamStopsHere provides a lot of features that are specifically designed for anti-spam filtering and blocking. Although there are a lot of other features available as well but they specialize in anti-spam and this is what they do best. Here is a salient list of anti-spam features that SpamStopsHere provides.

• False-positive rate of less than 0.001%
• Multi-Layered Filtering
• IP Blacklist (Blocks email from servers owned by spammers)
• URL / Phone Filter (Blocks email with dangerous click-me links or phone numbers)
• Phrase Filter (Blocks email with long phrases that only appear in spam)
• Pattern Filter (Blocks email with HTML tricks that spammers use)
• Custom Filters (Block email with user-specifed content)
• Whitelist / Blacklist

Editions

SpamStopsHere provide a wide range of editions and packages for all types of businesses. Whether you want to try SpamStopsHere for personal use or for a small business or for enterprise needs, SpamStopsHere will have a package for you.

• Standard: Multi-layered Antispam, Malware Blocking, Attachment Filtering and Two-Factor Authentication
• Business: Standard Features + TLS Email Encryption
• Professional: Business Features + Multiple Mailservers, Active Directory/ LDAP Authentication and Email Quarantine
• Enterprise: Professional Features + Outbound Filtering

Price

There pricing varies depending on the edition so here is a list of their available service editions along with their prices

Note: These prices are for 10 Mailboxes and 1 Email Domain. Contact SpamStopsHere to get a quote on your custom order

• Standard: $19/month or $190/year
• Business: $23.75/month or $237.50/year
• Professional: $28.50/month or $285/year
• Enterprise: $33.25/month or $332.50/year

These editions also have a free trial available that you can avail to test out their services.

Official Website: https://www.spamstopshere.com/sign-in.html

EveryCloud

EveryCloud’s email and spam protection is no doubt one of the best in the market. With their packages available for education, businesses and resellers, they are a perfect combination of price and features.

Features

Let’s get straight to the features of EveryCloud. When it comes to features, EveryCloud provides a never ending list of anti-spam and email protection features. Here is an overview of the features that EveryCloud will provide with their cloud based email protection service.

• Email protection and filtering
• Spam reports
• Automatic Spooling and Delivery
• Email Continuity and Email Archiving
• Email Encryption
• Mail Flow Monitor
• Advanced Threat Protection
• Filter Management
• 90 day email logs

These features alone are more than enough to provide heavy filtering and anti-spam protection for your mailboxes. These features are available at reasonable prices along with a free trial as well.

Pricing

Unfortunately, EveryCloud doesn’t provide fixed plan pricing publically. So, you will have to go to their official website and get a quote from them. You can talk to them and tell them about your requirements and they will give you an estimate about the price. However, keep in mind that they do offer a free trial that you can avail to test out their services. You don’t have to take our word for it, try it and see if it suits your needs.

Official Website: https://www.everycloudtech.com/

MailRoute

MailRoute is the last one in the list of our anti-spam services but it isn’t the least one. MailRoute provides a full system of protection for your emails along with a lot of spam filters to suit everyones needs. MailRoute provides lots of features and doesn’t require any kind of software or hardware installation. With almost 20 years of email filtering experience, MailRoute provides one of the best cloud based anti-spam services on the internet.

Features

MailRoute provides a ton of features specifically for anti-spam and clean email. Here is a list of features that MailRoute provides to its users

• Granular controls over filters on Domain and Mailbox levels
• Email Encryption
• Email Continuity and Archiving Lite
• Dynamic routing and undetectable latency
• Data loss prevention
• Spam, phishing and virus protection
• GreyListing
• Best of breed Private & Public RBL’s
• Multiple Virus Engines updated every few minutes
• Virus Infected email is detected and destroyed before it reaches your network
• Spam is quarantined
• Lexical analysis
• Bayesian filtering
• Distributed traffic pattern analysis
• White and Blacklists let you adjust scores
• Multi-Layered system

This is just the tip of the iceberg. There are a lot more features that Mailroute will offer you once you sign up for their services. But, don’t worry, there is a 30 day free trial available for everyone who is a bit skeptical of MailRoute. You can try MailRoute and see for yourself what they have to offer. More on this in the pricing section.

Pricing

When it comes to pricing, MailRoute delivers the best pricing plans. Unlike other services with specific products or editions, MailRoute will charge per Mailbox. They have a set pricing for a range of Mailboxes which basically means that you will be charged based on the amount of mailboxes that you will get their service for.

• 1-10 Mailboxes: $30 per user per year
• 11-99 Mailboxes: $2 per month
• 100-199 Mailboxes: $1.80 per month
• 200-299 Mailboxes: $1.70 per month

Don’t worry, as mentioned above, you will get a free 30 day trial as well. You can use this free trial to get a glimpse of what the MailRoute is. Other than these, you can get a quote from MailRoute as well depending on your custom requirements. For that, you will have to get in touch with MailRoute’s customer support or someone else from MailRoute.

Official Website: https://mailroute.net/

Conclusion

The bottom line is that there are plenty of options to choose from when it comes to spam filtering for your email. And, you don’t need to be a business or a corporation to get these anti-spam services. Even if you are a freelancer and you can spare some money, you will be good to go. The above mentioned anti-spam services are one of the best in the market these days. Of course, you will find a lot more services on the internet but these are the most widely recognized and reliable services. So, go through each of them, use their trials and see for yourself which one is suitable for your business. You, definitely, won’t be disappointed by any one of these.