| Hostopia Launches Enhanced
Spam Filter [8th October
2003]
Application is bundled with Hostopia
web hosting and email services
Fort
Lauderdale – Hostopia announced the release of
Spam Filter 2.0, a spam handling application that helps
business email users avoid junk email (B.U.C.E.), the
Internet’s #1 irritant. The application preserves
legitimate business mail, often falsely identified by
weaker filters incorrectly as Spam.
“Nearly half of all daily received email is considered
spam. These unsolicited emails not only waste business
users’ valuable time, but also take up a significant
amount of network bandwidth,” says Franc Nemanic,
Hostopia’s president.
Hostopia uses Spam Assassin, one of the world’s
leading spam filtration engines. Proprietary development
by Hostopia has enhanced the application in numerous
ways. The filters are easy to activate in two modes:
normal and aggressive. All filtered mail is “quarantined”
in a browser-accessible folder where users can easily
catch false-positives that are in fact, desired emails
vs. spam. Application heuristics “remember”
restored mail addresses and remove them permanently
from the filtration criteria.
“If there’s one thing worse than being inundated
with spam, it’s losing valuable business email
incorrectly identified and filtered as spam,”
adds Nemanic. “Spam Filter 2.0 handles all mail
with optimal, user preferred treatment.”
The Gartner Group has reported that 36 per cent of email
users would switch their service provider if they could
benefit from reduced junk email. Hostopia positions
Spam Filter 2.0 as a significant revenue driver to its
private labeled partners based on this market projection.
Spam Filter 2.0’s two levels of spam detection
are also accompanied by white list and black list capabilities
to instantly allow or reject email received from user
specified email addresses and domains.
A number of mail delivery options are available to users
allowing for the automatic deletion of email classed
as spam or the ability to review later to recover any
mail potentially identified incorrectly as spam. Users
can also eliminate undesirable email based on language
criteria.
Spam Filter 2.0 is a hosted service available to all
hosting service providers among Hostopia’s network
of over 275 partners.
About
Hostopia
Hostopia
provides private-branded hosting, email and e-commerce
solutions to telcos, ISPs, cable companies, domain registrars,
and other Web Service Providers. Hostopia’s automated
provisioning and support platforms enable service providers
to increase their hosting revenues and profits while
delivering a superior feature set to their end-user
business customers. Hostopia's WebhostOS is a breakthrough
technology that creates a single system for managing
"UNIX/Windows" applications. Its clustered
server environment allows enterprises to benefit from
sophisticated hosting features normally associated with
high-cost, non-redundant dedicated servers, yet at “shared
hosting” prices. The company has won numerous
industry awards including “Editors Choice for
best hosting reseller opportunity, 2002” by Hosting
World Magazine and "Best Private Label" Web
Hosting Company by Web Hosting Magazine. Hostopia currently
serves over 250 Web Hosting companies, making it one
of the fastest growing wholesale web hosting companies
in the world with offices in Ft. Lauderdale, US and
Toronto, Canada.
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For more information, please contact:
Franc Nemanic
President
Hostopia.com Inc.
1 866 HOSTOPIA
president@hostopia.com
Website: www.hostopia.com
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