Tips For Eliminating Spam Going To Your Web Hosting Email Accounts

September 1, 2010 by Dorian
Filed under: Website Design 

Most web hosting packages these days come with free email accounts which you can use and most of the time you will be able to create a number of accounts. If you are running a business on your website then the fact that you have many email accounts can be a great benefit. It means that you should be able to organise things a lot better and make sure that your business and personal life don’t get too mixed up. But you can actually end up getting more spam when you have extra email accounts. The tips below should help you to cope with this problem.

 

- Spam Assassin is an application which comes with cPanel and this can really help. You can add your own specifications to how this software functions but it can be great at filtering unwanted spam.

 

- You will be able to keep off the spammer’s radar by choosing to go for private domain registration.

 

- When it comes to choosing email address names then try not to pick anything which is too obvious. It is easy for spammers to figure out names such as admin@ or your name@.

 

- If you have a catchall then it might be a good idea to disable this. Any email that is sent to your email address will be saved in your inbox but if you disable the catchall then the amount of spam you receive could be reduced.

 

- If you intend to be using your email address on lots of other sites for registration accounts direct the mail to a separate inbox that you don’t use for other purposes. That can mean that you won’t end up getting too much spam and you can actually close this account without too much hassle if needs be.

 

Many website owners can find spam a real headache but hopefully these tips will make sure that the same does not apply to you.

 

Whenever you make your decision to enter the big, bad world of internet marketing, you should really have web hosting set up beforehand. Newbie’s can find, though, that the web hosting world can be rather confusing. An example of this could be coming across free web hosting or even dedicated servers when you are looking at different hosting plans.