@janusz
>> Domain name: EMAILALIAS.COM<<
That spelling is different. Are you sure that's the same company??
@EdwinWolfPA
>> Not sure if this applies or not, However, here is a thread regarding Spamex:
http://www.emaildiscussions.com/show...ghlight=spamex
Thought you should know if you don't already.<<
Thanks for the warning, but it was too late.
I'd already paid.
My assessment of spamex so far:
Obviously I have no way to evaluate the long-term viability of the service. I admit it doesn't sound promising, but I just couldn't bring myself to go back to no pin-point control over all my email contacts. I'm spoiled.
<SPAMEX> We are still here and going strong. We recently fought and won an Patent Infringement litigation brought on us by WebZero, which purchased Emailias a while back. It was expensive and will take us a while to recover from those expenses.
They have a couple of interesting features that Emailias didn't have, but they aren't ones that are terribly useful to me, so they still don't make up for the features that are lacking. Nonetheless, they are the closest thing to Emailias out there, that I can find anyway.
Things I miss the most so far:
1) No Reply Generator. They do have the capability of clicking "send" next to a spamex online, which allows you to originate an email message from the spamex to the recipient (and copy yourself, if you wish). This is better than nothing, but not as good as Reply Generator. For one thing, you still have to wait for a reply to come from the recipient before you have their spamex response address.
<Spamex>You can create a reply address (we call it a CEA or Contact Email Address) by going into the contacts tab of the DEA and adding a new contact.
2) No way that I can see to download a copy of the database of all your spamex addresses. Believe me, this time I'm keeping my own spreadsheet! I don't know what I would have done this weekend without the one I had downloaded from Emailias and I can really feel the pain of those who didn't.
<Spamex>Yes, we do need this and obviously with what just happened to people with their emailias accounts, we understand the sensitivity to this issue. Look for it soon.
3) No way to list multiple domain names with one spamex. You can USE them for more than one domain, but you can only enter one as the "official" one.
<Spamex>I am not sure what this means. The <Site Domain> field can take a list of domain names and the DEA will be returned when Spamex is invoked from ANY of those domains.
4) No way to organize spamex addresses in folders. You just get a list. However the list is filterable in various ways and also searchable, so it's not too godawful.
<Spamex>True, no foldering, but the search does search in the DEA, the Domain and the notes fields, so it is easy to locate things, its just not possible to group them.
5) Minor irritant: no auto-select of the address after it's been created; you have to manually highlight it yourself.
<Spamex>This depends on the browser. On IE you should see a 'copy' link that will put the address into the clipboard. On other browsers you should be able to triple click the DEA to select it then have to Control-C to put it in the clipboard.
I am sure there are more differences that would probably irritate the heck out of other Emailias users, but for the way I used it, these are the biggest differences I notice. So far.