Safe-tip

 Restricting incoming messages

  Example:
Your ex-boyfriend wrote your e-mail address all over the neighborhood and now every jerk out there is sending you messages. You don't want to have to go through all those messages every time you log-in; you only want to read messages from a few specific people.

You don't want to receive messages from just anybody who happens to know your e-mail address; you would like to have control over your mailbox and decide whether messages will be let in or rejected according to your own criteria. You would like to be able to change your criteria whenever you feel want to and in short, be the master of your mailbox.

Safe-mailTM's Mail Control function enables you to do just that.

 How?

Defining who can send you messages:
  • Click the Security button at the top of the screen.
  • Click the Mail Security tab.
  • Scroll down to Incoming messages.
  • If you don't want to receive messages from outside the secure environment, check the "accept only messages of secure origin" option.
  • If you want to receive messages of secure origin from certain addresses only, check the "accept only messages from the following users:" option.
  • Fill in the user names (separate names with spaces or commas).
  • If you want to receive messages from users who have been authenticated by certain people, fill in the names of the people whose authentication you trust (separate names with spaces or commas).
  • Click Update.
Rejecting messages:
  • Go to your Mailbox.
  • Click Mail Settings.
  • In the Blocked users section fill in the list of addresses you want to block separated by spaces or commas.
  • Click the Update button.
    • You can also block unwanted messages by clicking the Block Sender button from within the message. The sender's address will automatically be displayed in your "Blocked" list in your Mail Settings. When someone who is blocked by you sends you a message, he or she gets a notice that the message has been blocked.