Headweb

'Spam' is junk e-mail, often pornographic, usually trying to sell you something you don't wan't or direct you to websites often of the unsavoury variety. Spam clogs up our servers and causes you to spend valuable time downloading and sifting through for genuine mail. Today the cost of this to individuals and businesses has become unacceptable. For this reason we have installed Anti Spam software and basic Anti Virus software on our server. All 'headweb.co.uk' email accounts are now protected and we can extend this service to any domain on the server.

Official definition: Unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscrminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups.

How it Works
The software scans the header and body of every email passing through the headweb server before awarding it a number of "points". The points are based on common factors known to exist in spam emails (eg certain words, and email coming from certain sources).

Anything below 5 points is considered "not spam", allowing it to pass through to your email box.
Messages with 5-15 points will have ***Spam*** in their subject line but will be passed through to your mail box.
Messages with 15 points and over will be automatically deleted and will not be delivered.

NB - No system is perfect but this FREE service goes a long way to reducing this menace. We will soon be launching a service that you can tailor to your own needs but this will cost on a 'per mailbox' basis.

Requesting it for your domain
You can request it by filling in the form here.

How you can use it:
If you have an email client such as Outlook Express, Outlook or Eudora you can configure the mail rules to perform certain functions (e.g. do not download from the server, delete or put in 'xx' folder).

TIP: Most users elect to set 'Message Rules' (in outlook express) to leave messages with ***SPAM*** in the subject line on the server. They then periodically check with '' before deleting them. This saves the on-line time spent downloading them and reduces the possibility of users (eg children or others) being offended or upset by the contents. To learn how to do this in Outlook Express - .

For other email clients such as Outlook, Eudora etc the process may be similar to above, however, we suggest you use the "help" function in the program and search for "Message rules" or similar.