Boxtrapper for cutting down on spam

[snowcreative]

Many hosting services now include Boxtrapper as a way to cut down on spam. Has Jag evaluated this package? Why is it not included in our version of CPanel? Has anyone used this? Reviews, anyone?

[Rye Seronie Oh]

Boxtrapper protects your inbox from spam by forcing all people not on your white list to reply to a verifcation email before they can send mail to you.

I don't know too much, but I do know that most spam comes from unknown and fake email address. I assume that by it replying to all messages coming in asking for confirmation and the like, that would require many messages to be generated if you received a high volume of spam. That would cause the server to get tons of messages back reporting that they're false addresses. I could see that slowing down the mail server substantially.

I wouldn't think that would be a good idea. Perhaps some others have other views on it or perhaps more information.

~Ryan

[jason]

I'd be against it if it were implemented with no way to turn it on and off. I maintain a series of mailing list for my scout troop and one of the families on the list uses a piece of whitelisting software and it is annoying to have to go to their website to approve messages all the time (especially since they serve it from a home computer that isn't always turned on). I use my site to run a business. If I told my potential clients that they had to confirm anything they sent to me, they wouldn't be potential clients very long. I use Spam Assassin and it successfully filters about 99% of my spam, so I don't feel the need to add any other protections. After not seeing my mail for the past two days, I had only 3 spam messages in my inbox and over 300 of them in my spam folder

If it were added as an option, I wouldn't be opposed, so long as the extra overhead from running it wouldn't interfere with my site. I'd keep it turned off, but if anyone really wanted to use it, why not?

--Jason