| Mailshell: Easy Newsletter Management and Anti-Spam
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Easy
Unsubscribing
Under
"My Lists", Mailshell presents a list of all the newsletters you are
subscribed to. This makes unsubscribing each individually or all of
them a matter of seconds instead of the frustrating experience that
can be otherwise.
Under
the list details available for every newsletter, another
unsubscription feature I have yet to find a use for is hidden.
Mailshell can automatically unsubscribe from any given newsletter
after a given amount of time, for example 10 days or 3
months.
Anti-Spam...
While
the easy of subscription and unsubscription that Mailshell provides
are convenient, its essential features are the spam and privacy
protection Mailshell can provide.
If you
give your email address to anyone, you never know what might happen
to it. It could be sold to spammers, hackers could steal it, an
unfortunate error could reveal it to everybody one the
Web,...
This is
why it is generally a good idea to never give out your "real"
address, but one that forwards all the mail it receives to this one.
Thus, you lose no messages, but you can instantly delete the
forwarding address if it get spammed. While sending spam to a
non-existing address still consumes network resources and costs ISPs
money, at least you do not see the spam anymore, and the address is
worthless to spammers.
Mailshell does provide this anti-spam measure. It generates a
unique email address for every newsletter you subscribe to and
forwards all mail received at that address to your regular email
account. If one of these forwarding addresses is leaked to spammers,
you can delete it. The address is also extinguished if you
unsubscribe from the newsletter it was created for.
...And
Privacy
Some
Web sites and newsletters not only require your email address
(which, with Mailshell, of course is a uniquely generated forwarding
address), but also ask for personal information.
Mailshell knows which data is required (your name, zip code,
age, or whatever) and automatically submits that information.
Protecting your privacy, this information need not be true, however.
For this purpose, Mailshell sets up profiles. An anonymous profile
would include dummy information, for example. While you'd use this
profile usually, you can use another one with your real information
for specific Web site newsletters if you want.
"May Nature's kindliest powers sustain the Tree,
And
Love protect it from all injury!"
William Wordsworth
bye,
-heinz\l.
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