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Spambite anti-spam network is a technology for Spambite subscribers to receive email from validated senders. Spambite uses a central database of email addresses to stop email from unknown senders reaching a Spambite subscriber. A sender to a Spambite subscriber only validates their email address once, and for free, to be included in the central database for all Spambite subscribers. The Spambite sender database will be maintained on a bank of servers and synced between multiple data centers much like the current Domain Name Sever system in order to prevent spam mail from being delivered. This permits Spambite to be a truly mobile anti-spam solution as the email address is the primary point of protection not the computer.
Spambite is an email service that works much like a Domain Name Server system works. When you open a browser and point it to this site, your computer first requests from a Domain Name Server, the IP address of the site you wish to view.
In the same way, Spambite consists of what we call ENS (Email Name Servers) servers that contain validated email addresses for each person on the Internet. By being protected by the system, Spambite subscribers only receive email from validated addresses.
Spambite does not guarantee that you will never receive spam mail again, but we do guarantee that if you do, you can hit reply and give your thoughts back to the one that sent it.
By making sure that all email comes from validated email addresses you are able to block any addresses you wish from sending you email and you don't have to worry about them changing their email address and tricking your email program to receiving something you didn't want.
Also, because all senders are validated with Spambite, if they do not remove you from a list as requested, then you can take other enforceable actions against the sender.
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Spambite addresses spam mail in a very unique way. For the ISP/Corporate subscriber we have the Spambite Gate Appliance.
The Spambite gateway appliance serves as the gate, or mediator, between subscribers, the subscriber’s email server and the remaining components of the Spambite network. This appliance identifies mail as having been sent by a validated sender or a non-validated sender. If a message is determined to have originated by a non-validated sender, the appliance has the ability to instruct the email server to temporarily quarantine the message on the server that received it before it is ultimately delivered or deleted from the server.
The gateway appliance does not remove and store messages from the email server and therefore keeps overhead and infrastructure to a minimum. This lends to a rapidly deployable, globally scalable solution. Furthermore, since the gateway appliance simply communicates with the email server on the subscriber’s behalf, there are absolutely no changes that have to take place on the email server. This permits the solution to work for subscribers even if their email service provider does not participate in or even acknowledge the Spambite solution.
By providing this level of service, a subscriber can protect an account whether or not the ISP supports a specific process or not.
The Spambite Gate Appliance interfaces the email client with the email server and the protection network called the Email Name Servers (ENS). These servers are where the real work is done in order to provide protection from spammers.
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Because there is absolutely no software to install on the client system, Spambite will work with literally any OS. Even if a plug-in has not yet been developed for your particular type or version of email server, utilizing the Gateway still provides the same level of support.
We also offer Spambite Gateway appliances that can easily be plugged into your corporate network behind your firewall or anywhere else you wish that will allow you to host your own Gateway without being forced to use ours.
Contact our Sales staff for more information and pricing on a Spambite Gateway Appliance today.
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From a Spambite subscriber’s View Blocked Email page, a subscriber can choose to click on an incoming message to activate its delivery and automatically add the sender to the subscriber’s whitelist. The sender’s address will remain on the subscriber’s whitelist until the address is validated. When the sender does validate their email address, the subscriber’s whitelist will no longer show the address as it was added to the ENS.
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Consider this typical e-commerce scenario. You buy a plane ticket on MyPlane.com, and MyPlane Air Lines emails you a purchase confirmation and itinerary. Since confirmation@myplanesupport.com isn't in the subscriber’s whitelist, Spambite will send one validation request to which MyPlane cannot respond. Your confirmation and itinerary gets buried among the spam. There are different ways Spambite allows subscribers to continue receiving email from a mailing list, but all require the subscriber to add an entry to the subscriber’s whitelist until the sender is validated.
If all the mail comes from the same place (i.e. confirmation@myplanesupport.com) the subscriber adds the email address to their white list. If the email originates from different addresses through a list server, (such is the case for discussion lists) the header will contain a "List-ID" that can be added to the subscriber’s whitelist. List-ID's are also sometimes provided on the newsgroup website. Spambite is also encouraged to see that ecommerce sites, newsgroups and others are posting their originating email address.
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Spambite is a unique solution to the spam mail problem. Other spam mail solutions base their solution on a number of different techniques. Here are a few:
WhiteLists - A white list is a group of email addresses that you wish to receive email from even if they are not part of the Spambite network. The problem with most whitelist programs is that you have to maintain the list and if you have multiple computer systems it means twice the work.
Another problem with whitelist solutions is that each person sending mail has to signup for every other person's whitelist. It requires a lot of work on everyone's part and then if your system crashes you have to start all over. With Spambite, the sender validates ONCE and FREE for the benefit of all Spambite subscribers.
BlackLists - A blacklist is a list of known spammers and email servers. If an email arrives from someone on the blacklist it will be blocked. The problem is that spammers spoof each and every email that leaves their servers and a blacklist can't be updated fast enough for it to prove useful.
Filters - A filter is a program that an email passes through, either on your computer or on the mail server itself. These filters look for things like: who an email is from, what is in the subject, or sometimes, what is in the body of the email. The problem with most filters is that spammers spoof emails and most filters can't keep up with them. They are also very intensive to setup and maintain. They also put a strain on systems while trying to determine if each mail is spam or not. And as you guessed it, they do find false positives, which means some good email just never gets delivered.
Spambite is not a filter, not a blacklist, and is not a whitelist although you do have the ability to add people to a whitelist if you like. Spambite stops spam mail by forcing each email address that sends you email to validate within its network. If an email address is not validated, an immediate email notification is sent to that subscriber requesting them to validate their address. All they need do is click a link in the email to verify their email address. The validation is FREE and performed ONCE for the benefit of all Spambite subscribers.
Once verified, that sender can send email to any Spambite subscriber. No more notifications are sent out which means a single reply gets them access to everyone.
The Spambite network limits sending a certain number of emails per hour. This prevents a spammer from joining the network and sending unsolicited email as a validated subscriber. The network is also continuously looking for signatures a spammer might leave if he/she were to try different things to get through, and if located it will automatically shut down the email addresses or email server that the spam mail is originating from.
So Spambite does not guarantee "NO" spam, we just stop the game playing and force spammers to communicate with you as themselves.
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If you wish to run Spambite on your corporate network, the first thing you would need to do is purchase the Spambite Gateway appliance. The price of the appliance really depends on the number of Spambite subscribers you wish to protect. Contact Spambite Sales for more information
Once the Spambite Gateway appliance is physically installed, there are two options available for the solution’s rollout.
1) All those wishing to be protected signup for a protected account on the main Spambite server, which requires subscribers to make slight modifications to their email settings. This slight modification will point their email application toward the company’s new gate appliance.
An advantage is that the ISP/Corporate customer could then control how many subscribers would be using the protection as well as not change any settings whatsoever with their email servers. This option does require those to be protected to make slight changes to their email settings as already mentioned.
2) The ISP/Corporate would change their local DNS entry for their email server to point to the Spambite Gateway appliance for pop/imap transactions. The advantage here is that all subscribers would instantly be accessing the Spambite Gateway appliance and would not have to change any local settings. Access through the appliance has nothing to do with which users are actually being protected as that is controlled within the ENS.
Just as in the first option, the ISP/Corporate has nothing to change on the email server itself. The email server won't even know the Spambite Gateway appliance is on the network.
Each client system would request the Spambite Gateway appliance retrieve their email, thinking all the while, that the Spambite Gateway appliance itself is their email server. The Spambite Gateway appliance would then check mail on the corporate server on behalf of the client, removing anything it sees as spam - that is email originating from an address not validated on the Spambite network. During the inbound email verification process, the Spambite network of ENS servers would kick off a validation request to the invalidated email sender. In addition, all email from an invalidated sender would be deleted from the network if they do not validate within 24 hours.
From a Spambite subscriber’s View Blocked Email page, a subscriber can choose to click on an incoming message to activate its delivery and automatically add the sender to the subscriber’s whitelist. The sender’s address will remain on the subscriber’s whitelist until the address is validated. When the sender does validate their email address, the subscriber’s whitelist will no longer show the address as it was added to the ENS.
Spambite is the only solution on the market with the patented technology capable of validating each and every email address a single time for the benefit of all Spambite subscribers.
This is due to Spambite's patented ENS technology that allows Spambite to store all email addresses within a single network when they are validated. This differs drastically from all other solutions available today that store separate lists on each email server.
Contact Spambite Sales for more information or to schedule a conference with our developers to see if this solution would work for you.
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Spambite is a very unique approach to solving the spam mail problem. We do not store a list of users per email server where we have a single point of failure.
Instead, we distribute the email address database throughout the Internet to prevent a single point of failure. We also have redundant systems for each group of ENS servers and Root ENS servers in order to further restrict down time.
In the event the RootENS system or the ENS systems go down, email will continue to flow to the users as if they were not being protected at all.
If your particular gateway appliance goes down, you have three options:
1) Restore the Spambite Gateway appliance.
2) Move your local DNS for the pop/imap server back to the real email server while you work on the Spambite Gateway appliance with the professional team at Spambite.
3) Have your users change their internal pop account information back to the original email server.
In any case 100% of all email will continue to flow to the email server and will not be lost. One of the largest benefits of our service is that we do not in any way effect the way your current email server functions.
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In order to get spam mail to pass through all of the different filters and programs on the Internet, a spammer uses techniques called spoofing. This is the act of changing information within an email that causes the email to take on different appearances. This is done in order to get the mail past the filters that are set to protect your email address.
For example: A spammer doesn't want you to hit reply to an email because if you do, you are causing them problems. For one the spammer would get a lot of mail each day sent back to their system, more than the spammer’s system could manage. They can't very well stop you from hitting reply, but they can make the address the email came from, contain something that doesn't exist. Then if you hit reply, your reply will not go anywhere and will end up bouncing back to you.
Another trick a spammer uses is to spoof the email server name and even the domain name the email originates from. This is done for a number of reasons, which range from trying to hide their true identity to making an email look like it came from a valid source like Microsoft, when in reality it came from a server in China. Spambite prevents spoofing because we match the sender’s email address and IP address with an encrypted code at registration to validate the address. Plus, Spambite has a set of rules to monitor the sender’s email address and IP address when their address is requested for confirmation.
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A white list is a group of email addresses that you wish to receive email from even if they are not part of the Spambite network.
For example: A friend you have just won't hit reply to the Spambite registration request that was sent to them and they just keep trying to send email that keeps getting blocked. You can add that person to your white list and their email will flow through just perfectly without a rejection notice to the person sending the mail.
Another thing that Spambite does, it will not allow an email to arrive in your mailbox if that mail originated or appears to have originated from you. The reason is that spammers will sometimes send email and set the "to" address and the "from" address the same. This prevents you from hitting reply as well and confuses enough people to make them at least click on the email to see what it is.
If a Spambite subscriber needs to send mail to their own account, they will need to add their email address to their white list in order to do this.
One other quick note about white lists. If you add your mother to your whitelist so that she never gets blocked in the first place and your mother later decides to join Spambite or perhaps she replies to someone else's Spambite validation request, the system will remove her from your white list. This is done because if an email address exists in the main database and there is no need for them to be duplicated in your white list.
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Spambite uses a unique approach to protecting your information. The weakest link in security today is user passwords. As a result, we decided to make up our users (or subscribers) passwords for them. The problem is our passwords are very hard to remember if not impossible.
So, when you wish to access your account you will come to this site and click on the "My Account" button on the main menu. From there you will enter your email address and the system will send you an email containing a link to click in order to access your account.
If you wish to remove the email after you're done you are free to do so, as you can request access emails as much as you like, but you are also free to store the email for a period of time and continue to access the account from the same link.
Currently, email links to account access are valid for a period of 2 weeks. This time is subject to change due to various circumstances, but if you click a link that is no longer valid Spambite will ask you to request a new access email.
We may also provide a subscriber login section directly on the site if requested by our subscribers.
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If you own a master account on Spambite, which is a paid account that controls the different email addresses, you have the ability to protect up to 4 different email addresses in addition to the main email account
From the Account Access page subscribers may:
Modify Master Account Information
Add & Remove Protected Email Addresses
Add & Remove From Whitelist
Upload Your Address Book
Disable & Enable Spambite
View Blocked Email
You can add email addresses directly from your blocked email list to your white list with one click of the mouse on the View Blocked Email page or manage email addresses directly on the Add & Remove From Whitelist.
You can also review email the Spambite network has prevented from being delivered and can see how many times each person has attempted to send an email to you on the View Blocked Email page.
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Spambite works by blocking a sender's email coming from email addresses that Spambite has never validated. There are three ways for sender's to validate an email address on the Spambite network.
1. An invalidated sender transmits to a Spambite subscriber an email. Spambite will block and hold the message and deliver to the sender a notification stating:
a. The recipient's email address is a Spambite subscriber.
b. In order to contact the Spambite subscriber, the sender must validate their email address with the Spambite network.
c. After validating, the sender's original email message will be delivered.
2. An invalidated sender may visit the Spambite website and proactively register their email address.
3. The Spambite subscriber may upload their address book to the Spambite network. By uploading a Spambite subscriber's address book, Spambite, on behalf of the subscriber, will transmit a validation request to those in the subscriber's address book. This proactively prevents any email from an invalidated address to a Spambite Subscriber from being blocked and allows the invalidated sender to validate ONE TIME and for FREE before encountering Spambite on their own.
There are detailed instructions on the Upload Your Address Book page of Account Access to explain specific steps for all of the popular email programs. NOTE: You have to be a Spambite subscriber in order to upload your address book. Signup for a free 30-day trial or purchase a 1-year subscription now.
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There is no charge for a sender to validate a valid email address with the Spambite network.
If you wish to subscribe to Spambite however, Individuals pay as little as $35.00 for a one year subscription. For ISP/Corporate rates please contact Spambite Sales.
In order for Spambite to support all the major email servers, we have created the Spambite Gateway appliance. This appliance fits in between the email client and the ISP/Corporate email server. If your ISP or company allows POP3 access to your email server then you can encourage your ISP or company to use the Spambite Gateway appliance.
The only accounts not presently supported are those not allowing pop3 access to your email. IMAP support and limited HTML support is coming very soon.
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Spambite does not guarantee that you will not get spam. We can however guarantee you that if a Spambite subscriber receives spam they can block it, reply to the email address the spam originated, or report the sender to the proper authorities.
While we can claim that since converting email addresses over to Spambite, 100% of all spam mail has stopped, we cannot guarantee that spammers will not from time to time attempt to bypass our borders. While we are on a constant lookout for spammers that try to get through, with your help we can stop them in their tracks.
Spambite has the support mechanisms to immediately stop all spam originating from an email server or a specific email address and attempting to enter the Spambite network. This also is immediate for all Spambite subscribers not just the ones that use your particular email server. So as you can see, the system will not only protect you from spam today, but it will also protect you well into the future.
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Generally, spam is mail that is not requested. Also known as “unsolicited commercial e-mail” (UCE), “unsolicited bulk e-mail” (UBE) and “ray mail.” Spam is sometimes used to advertise products or to broadcast some political or social commentary. Our in-boxes are drowning in unwelcome spam messages, which play upon our basic desires to save money, make money, get something for nothing or beautify our bodies. There’s been an explosion of these virtual lies and come-ons recently. However, one person's spam is another's timely discount offer. That is why we built Spambite.
Problem spam comes from a sender that does not properly reveal their email address so the receiver of the message cannot contact the sender. Spambite eliminates mail from senders that do not want to be identified, leaving Spambite subscribers email box full of senders that can be identified.
Got Spam? Get Spambite!
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A FAQ is a Frequently Asked Question. These are questions that customers have asked that we feel you may be interested in, or they could even be questions that we anticipate you will want to know the answer. If we did not answer your question, please contact us by email support@spambite.com
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