Mailshell
By Larry
J. Seltzer
February 25, 2003
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- Product: Mailshell
- Direct Price: $35 direct per year
- Company Info: MailShell.com Inc, www.mailshell.com
Editor Rating: 
The most comprehensive service is Mailshell ($35 direct per year),
makers of the client-side antispam tool SpamCatcher, reviewed on the
next page. In addition to providing DEAs, Mailshell can apply its
spam filtering to any existing ISP or Web mail service. You can read
the mail through Mailshell's Web interface or in your regular mail
client. In addition, you get an unlimited number of disposable
addresses. The base price gives you a domain like @larry-seltzer.mailshell.com,
and you can make up any address you want to go with it—for
example, emailsafety@larry-seltzer.mailshell.com. For an extra
$16.95 per month, you can eliminate the mailshell from your domain.
Addresses can be set to auto-expire after a set amount of time.
The service also automatically puts any e-mails sent to addresses in
your domain that you haven't activated into a Pending folder. This
defeats most dictionary attacks while preserving messages to
addresses you've forgotten to create. For example, you may have
given out a new address to your child's school but forgotten to add
it to the system.
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