Bit-Box has implemented custom spam filters (using Procmail) to help protect all of our users. All email entering Bit-Box's servers is passed through these filters. All processing happens behind the scenes, and in order to take full advantage of our filters, all you've got to do is configure your mail client to look for certain strings in the mail header which are appended to your emails by our filters. What does this mean for you? You have 2 options:
- Do nothing - you will receive your email as you always have.
- Configure your mail client to filter out emails containing the string "X-Spam-Caught-By" in the message header. This will allow you use email as it was originally intended - as a powerful, easy to use communication tool that enhances your productivity. Feel free to contact us if you need assistance is setting up your mail filter.
- We do not recommend that you configure your filter to delete tagged spam. Spam filters are far from 100% accurate, and there is always a chance that legitimate email will be tagged as potential spam. Because of this, we recommend that you filter all tagged spam into another folder, monitor it for legitimate emails, and occasionally clean it out.
- Bit-Box does not delete any spam email, we simply tag it before it is delivered to you.
- Once the mail has passed through our filters, what you do with it after that is up to you.
- A few exceptions to the above: We DO delete spams from 100% known spammers (very rare), as well as emails containing potentially harmfull attachments (such as .pif, .scr, .bat, .com, etc).
- View our spam-catching rules here.
Virus Filtering:
Recent severe outbreaks of mass-mailing and self-propagating internet worms have led us to implement a filter to block and discard any email carrying the characteristics of a known virus and/or worm. Because known infections all share exact digital signature definitions (the same signatures used by companies such as Symantec, Norton, etc), they can be labeled and discarded as malevolent with a high degree of accuracy. Bit-Box has implemented Nikos K. Kantarakias' YAVR procmail recipe to protect our users from such outbreaks. What does this mean for you?
- You are protected from famous internet worms such as Netsky, Klez, Blaster, Bagle, Sobig, Nimda, and many others.
- As new worms emerge, our scripts are updated to protect you from new and unknown outbreaks as they happen.
- Bit-Box quarantines infected emails and deletes them at a later time at Bit-Box's discretion.
- These infected emails are never delivered to your Inbox.