Blocking spam

How do I block incoming spam?

Runbox Spam Filter

Runbox uses a superior spam filter, consisting of a unique combination of SpamAssassin, a point based spam scoring system widely used by many services, and the trainable, statistical anti-spam filter Dspam.

You can activate this on the Manager:Filter page, and it is very easy to use. You have the choice of rejecting email thought to be spam, or sending it to a certain folder in your webmail. By default, only the regular spam filter (SpamAssassin) is activated, since the trainable filter (Dspam) requires the user to actively train it, to become useful.

Disposable addresses

Be very careful in publishing your email address on the internet, and use a disposable address when you do. A disposable address is a "sub-adresses" on the format username+suffix@runbox.com. This is handy if you want to use your email address somewhere without attracting spam to your Runbox account.

For instance, if your username is "joe" you can receive email at "joe+work@runbox.com" and "joe+some-website@runbox.com". If you receive spam sent to one of your disposable addresses, you can set up a filter that sends email to that address to your Spam folder. It is also easy to know where your address was collected from.

More information

• To learn more about using the spam filter, see the Filter help page.
• For advanced spam filtering, see Advanced Spam Filtering
• For more information about how Runbox fights spam, see Anti-Spam Info.

Reporting spam or abuse

Please send any reports of spamming or abuse to the involved parties, or use a service like SpamCop. Please note that abuse AT runbox DOT com should only be used for reporting misuse of or by Runbox users, and that individual spam reports about mail from other sources sent to Runbox, will only be processed in special cases. We detect larger spam attacks and report plus block such IP's, automatically.

Help references

• Aliases: Aliases What is an alias? An alias is an extra address which forwards all mail to your main account, or to another Runbox email address. An alias is useful for giving ...
• CatchAll: Email hosting and catch all Runbox supports a so called "catch all" function for email hosting. This means that you will receive mail on all valid addresses for your ...
• ComingFeaturesDiscussion: Coming Features This is a list of features Runbox is planning to develop. What do you think they should include, and how should they work? For new suggestions please ...
• EmailHostingSetup: Email Hosting Setup 1 Go to the Account page and click Email Hosting in the submenu. 1 Enter a domain name that you own or administer. 1 Select Catch all ...
• Filter: Filter Contents The Filter level in Manager lets you reject email containing viruses, block unwanted senders and sort or reject suspected unsolicited junkmail (spam ...
• Signup: Signup To sign up for Runbox, please go to Signup and follow the instructions. Your Account Information is strictly confidential, as stated in our Privacy Policy. ...
• Webmail: Webmail Webmail is where you normally read incoming email, organize your messages in folders, and write new email. The Webmail window is divided in two parts, with ...

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