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Update: We have disabled Greylisting accross the board since it was confusing too many users. We will re-enable whenever cPanel offers to enable this and default to “disabled”.

If you use our advanced email service for your domains and have a package that includes email hosting, your account will have been upgraded to add greylisting service.

Greylisting is a great weapon in the ongoing war against spammers. Greylisting is quite simple in it’s implementation and takes advantage of how most spammers set up their servers to send out spam.

Most people recognize spam pretty easily, and usually will simply delete any spam they receive.  Spam email will also occasionally get reported to the hosting provider, in the hope that they will shut down the spammer.  Unfortunately, there are providers in certain areas that allow this kind of abuse to go in.  You should note greylisting is available for our advanced hosting plans, and is not for the free email aliases.register4less (more…)

If you’re an R4L customer using one of our combined web and email hosting packages, BoxTrapper is an aggressive spam filtering service that can help defeat spammers.

How it Works

When we receive new email for your account from an address you have not whitelisted, BoxTrapper will hold the email in a pending list.  For the email to make it to your inbox, one of two things needs to happen:

1. The sender confirms they are a human sending email and not a spam bot.  This is done via an email that is sent back to the sender with a link to a page on your website to confirm.
2. You review your list of “trapped” mail, select the email and click the option to Whitelist and Deliver.

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