For those of you who opted for the premium spam filtering service called Postini, here are some links for illustrated, step-by-step instructions on how to use it. The links will take you the respective email support pages on the HostMySite website.

• Adjust your Blatant Spam Blocking Settings - The following article explains how to adjust your Blatant Spam Blocking settings. Blatant Spam Blocking (BSB) is a setting for your domain that detects and deletes the most obvious spam before it reaches your email server. The spam messages are either bounced or deleted and aren’t included in your quarantine summaries. View instructions
• Adjust your Premium Spam Filtering Filter Settings - The following article explains how to adjust your Premium Spam Filtering filter settings. Premium Spam Filtering filtering is based on 4 categories: ‘Sexually Explicit,’ ‘Get Rich Quick,’ ‘Special Offers,’ and ‘Racially Insensitive.’ You have the option of adjusting the overall level of filtering or adjusting each category. Filters are adjusted on a per user basis, allowing each user to determine their own level of filtering. View instructions

The hosting that we set up for our clients via HostMySite (HMS) includes a basic level of spam filtering. This works pretty well for most of our clients, but sometimes it’s not enough for the heavy-duty spam dumping that some of you need. Personally, I used to get 300-500 spam messages EACH day until I got completely fed up. Then, just in time, HMS announced their partnership with a company called Postini.

Postini is the ultimate spam killer. You pay $1 per email account, per year … well worth the reduction of my own spam to somewhere around 1-2 annoying junk emails each week. I’m no longer pounding my desk and yelling at the internet gods for creating such a time- and energy-sapping entity called spam.

Contact us if you’d like to try out Postini for 30 days. You won’t regret it!