Review of SpamArrest
While email is a wonderful invention, it allows us to keep in touch with family and friends for easily, quickly, and cheaply, it has one annoying feature – spam! How many times have you had to weed through messages from a Nigerian prince wanted to give you money for helping him or emails about free $500 Best Buy gift certificates to get to the emails you really want to read? Spam emails not only clog up the Internet airways, but may also cause you to miss an important email. There are companies that provide spam filters, but most people find that that helps little, if at all. What is the solution to getting rid of spam email? SpamArrest!
SpamArrest allows you to take control of your inbox, deciding the mail that makes it to your inbox and the mail that doesn’t. How does SpamArrest work? First, when you sign up, you will receive a new email address that ends in spamarrest.com. But do not worry; you do not have to give your family and friends a new email address. You can simply forward your existing email accounts to the new SpamArrest account or have SpamArrest check them every so often for mail. Anything that is not spam is placed in the SpamArrest inbox, which you can access using any POP3 or IMAP client, such as Outlook or Eudora. You can even use a web browser such as Internet Explorer or Firefox to access your SpamArrest email account through their webmail system.
To keep the spam out of this new inbox, you tell SpamArrest what email to place in your inbox. It can be a specific email address, a domain, or a mailing list if you subscribe to a forum. You have access to a disposable email sub-address, which means you can receive messages from people you do not know without them having access to see your real email address.
When an unknown email comes into the SpamArrest system, it uses Challenge/Response technology to remove any spam. If an email is received from someone not on your list, SpamArrest sends out an auto-reply message. The person who sent the unknown email is then asked to click on a link, which takes them to a webpage where they are “challenged” to type in a word that is hidden within a graphic. If this user successfully types in the hidden word, their message is sent to your inbox. While this type of Challenge/Response technology is easy for people to do, it is almost impossible for spambots, the automated systems that send out spam at alarming rates, to complete.
If the person who sent the email does not verify it, it sits in your unverified folder for seven days. You can log in and approve anyone you wish at any time during that seven-day period. This means even if you have technologically challenged friends, you can still approve for their emails to enter your inbox.
Click here to see it in action.
SpamArrest is a quick and easy way to filter out unwanted spam email. You can try it for free for 30 days. If you decide to subscribe, rates start as low as $3.12 a month – a small price to pay for something that saves you time by deleting all the spam for you. I stand by what is said here because I use it and would never go back.
November 29th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
To bad Spamarrest has such crappy support. We’ve been using it here for over a year, over that time we’ve had no e-mail for an entire day at least 6 times. not a big deal for personal messages but we are a business, each time we don’t get an e-mail is business lost. Their service is spotty, when you call for support you typically get a machine, and no call back, or you get a call the next day after the problem has been resolved. Lame. When the service is up using the web interface is painfully slow to the point of being almost useless. You still get spam in your “unverified” folder as well as any e-mails sent from people who do not reply to the ‘Challenge e-mail” which occurs quite often, so you still end up sifting through page after page of spam trying to find that message.
I am so unhappy with Spamarrest because of these reasons, I have worked with them trying to let them know their faults so they can repair them but all I get it “it works fine on this end” (regarding the slow interface) I guess slow is good…
Whatever, don’t believe the hype if you are looking for a Web-based e-mail solution for a business do not use Spamarrest.
December 5th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Well I can’t say that I have had to use their support yet. I would agree that if the support is what you say it is then that would not be acceptable to me. I use the web interface with IE7 and do not notice any real slowness.