E4ward anti-spam and forwarding

**Gankaku** · 2 Apr 2005, 06:00 AM

Here's a new service:

E4ward - anti-spam and forwarding.

I used to love bumpymail. However, I started getting nasty spam at my member fastmail account (the address I used there) after I started using bumpymail. Before I never got spam there. So I am not using bumpymail any longer...

schmoe · 2 Apr 2005, 08:13 AM

I've been using this service for awhile, haven't experienced any problems.

One note, there is no direct anti spam functionality. It has subdomain functionality, helpful for tracking which service sold you out, and but it doesn't directly prevent spam.

Empath · 2 Apr 2005, 12:13 PM

In defense of Bumpymail, I've got to say that after using it extensively, I've never noticed spam.

I've also been using E4ward for some time, and use three personal domains with it. Their methods seem quite effective and reliable.

I have my domains set up with a catchall through them. Then, if I start getting spam on one of the addresses, I just configure the address to bounce.

anonymous · 2 Apr 2005, 01:13 PM

It's very fast and efficient, easy to handle and free

there were discussions about this service before

http://www.emaildiscussions.com/...ghlight=e4ward

There's just one little thing.....the reply doesn't work with all email providers
For example if I get a forwarded message through e4ward into my web.de inbox, the sender will appear like this

user*webmail.com*xxxxx*xxxxx.e4ward.com*77D*4qes*3@reply.e4ward.com

web.de unfortunately doesn't allow to reply to such an weird email-address like that

**Gankaku** · 3 Apr 2005, 01:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Empath
In defense of Bumpymail, I've got to say that after using it extensively, I've never noticed spam.

Yes it could be a coincidence. I'm not sure. I never gave out that particular fastmail account address. But once I used it for Bumpymail for a couple of months - I was ok. Then the spam just started coming in at about 2 a day. I'm afraid it's going to explode and innundate my member account.. :-( I was so careful with that account and never gave it out till bumpymail. So that was the conclusion I drew.

trew · 3 Apr 2005, 03:26 AM

Quote:

alias at username.e4ward.com

would not the spammer try out username at e4ward.com

where does these emails go then? Do they end up in a bit bucket? or are theyforwarded to my prime email I gave them?

trew not getting it.

anonymous · 3 Apr 2005, 06:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by trew
would not the spammer try out username at e4ward.com

where does these emails go then? Do they end up in a bit bucket? or are theyforwarded to my prime email I gave them?

trew not getting it.

If you sing up there as user "trew" the aliases will be
for example

private@trew.e4ward.com
mailbox@trew.e4ward.com
news.ebay@trew.e4ward.com
mail.amazon@trew.e4ward.com

etc..

only messages to this addresses will be forwarded to your prime email address.
other addresses like anythingelse@trew.e4ward.com will be bounced back to the sender automatically, if one of the aliases get spammed you just exchange it.

trew · 3 Apr 2005, 03:22 PM

Not your fault. Thanks indeed for doing it soo short and consistent. But it fail to answer my question.

I did get that part. I tried to ask what happens when
they logically write to the most obvious address to write to?

trew@e4ward.com

ok I get it. that one end up to a very big spam collector trashbin and not get forwared to me I guess.

Did I get that one right now?

Feeling very embarrassed.

trew

anonymous · 3 Apr 2005, 07:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by trew
Not your fault. Thanks indeed for doing it soo short and consistent. But it fail to answer my question.

I did get that part. I tried to ask what happens when
they logically write to the most obvious address to write to?

trew@e4ward.com

ok I get it. that one end up to a very big spam collector trashbin and not get forwared to me I guess.

Did I get that one right now?

Feeling very embarrassed.

trew

I sent a mail from fastmail to my account @e4ward.com, this was the answer I got

This is the Postfix program at host frontend1.messagingengine.com.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

The Postfix program

<XXXXX@e4ward.com>: host mail.e4ward.com[70.85.31.73] said: 550 User unknown:
XXXXX@e4ward.com (in reply to RCPT TO command)

trew · 3 Apr 2005, 09:17 PM

we had an older thread about them too. I will look there later. Just now I am occupide with Skype and such.

forgot to give link to discussion about E4ward on google forum.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/e4ward

Gmail as usual tread adresses a bit unsual so they report rpoblem with that email services. some yahoo groups to behave in a way they didn't predict it seems

trew

PS thanks indeed for taking time to find out what happens.

Fenman · 4 Apr 2005, 03:45 PM

This thread made me think of using e4ward again so yesterday I set up Host Tracker to watch the site for reliaibilty.

I've no way yet of knowing whether this is typical but on the first day of watching I had:

"Url was down as a resultat of:

Http error:502

Error was detected at 2005-04-03 23:18:10

Downtime total 8 hour(s) 16 min(s) 39 sec(s)."

Doesn't seem like a good start, though.

trew · 4 Apr 2005, 04:58 PM

he or she could tell us ifthat was a planned downtime.

I 'm soo lucky that my glocalnet.net account give me almost infinite alias in crude way if I limit my behavior to have 5 at a time and drop one of them if I need a new one. Seems enough for my usage of email. Spray.se allow you to create new account too if it get spammed.

trew

anonymous · 5 Apr 2005, 06:32 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Fenman
This thread made me think of using e4ward again so yesterday I set up Host Tracker to watch the site for reliaibilty.

I've no way yet of knowing whether this is typical but on the first day of watching I had:

"Url was down as a resultat of:

Http error:502

Error was detected at 2005-04-03 23:18:10

Downtime total 8 hour(s) 16 min(s) 39 sec(s)."

Doesn't seem like a good start, though.

Hm, didn't notice anything, guess I was sleeping then.

Is there a way to find out for how long or how many times a service has been down in a year? That would be interesting too.

anonymous · 5 Apr 2005, 06:40 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by trew

I 'm soo lucky that my glocalnet.net account give me almost infinite alias in crude way if I limit my behavior to have 5 at a time and drop one of them if I need a new one. Seems enough for my usage of email. Spray.se allow you to create new account too if it get spammed.

trew

I have to admit that my english/german/italian/french doesn't help me trying out this two swedish providers you mentioned, it was easier to sign up at mail.ru

anonymous

e4ward · 5 Apr 2005, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Fenman
This thread made me think of using e4ward again so yesterday I set up Host Tracker to watch the site for reliaibilty.

I've no way yet of knowing whether this is typical ...

E4ward.com had 2 recent service interruptions on 3/31 and 4/3 (detailed here). My apologies to any E4ward.com users here who were affected.

During these outages, users could not update their accounts, but mail delivery was NOT affected thanks to redundant mail servers on multiple hosting providers. Mail delivery has been virtually continuous since the beginning of service.

Prior to 3/31,uptime for the web site was also measured in months, so your experience of yesterday was not typical.

2 Apr 2005, 06:00 AM	#1
Gankaku Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 3,265	E4ward anti-spam and forwarding Here's a new service: E4ward - anti-spam and forwarding. I used to love bumpymail. However, I started getting nasty spam at my member fastmail account (the address I used there) after I started using bumpymail. Before I never got spam there. So I am not using bumpymail any longer...

2 Apr 2005, 08:13 AM	#2
schmoe Essential Contributor Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 385	e4ward has no direct spam prevention I've been using this service for awhile, haven't experienced any problems. One note, there is no direct anti spam functionality. It has subdomain functionality, helpful for tracking which service sold you out, and but it doesn't directly prevent spam.

2 Apr 2005, 12:13 PM	#3
Empath Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Keizer, Oregon USA Posts: 132	In defense of Bumpymail, I've got to say that after using it extensively, I've never noticed spam. I've also been using E4ward for some time, and use three personal domains with it. Their methods seem quite effective and reliable. I have my domains set up with a catchall through them. Then, if I start getting spam on one of the addresses, I just configure the address to bounce. Last edited by Empath : 5 Apr 2005 at 11:23 AM.

3 Apr 2005, 03:22 PM	#8
trew Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sweden Posts: 836	Voi I even failed to make a question correct. Not your fault. Thanks indeed for doing it soo short and consistent. But it fail to answer my question. I did get that part. I tried to ask what happens when they logically write to the most obvious address to write to? trew@e4ward.com ok I get it. that one end up to a very big spam collector trashbin and not get forwared to me I guess. Did I get that one right now? Feeling very embarrassed. trew

3 Apr 2005, 09:17 PM	#10
trew Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sweden Posts: 836	Jay, then we all know then. we had an older thread about them too. I will look there later. Just now I am occupide with Skype and such. forgot to give link to discussion about E4ward on google forum. http://groups-beta.google.com/group/e4ward Gmail as usual tread adresses a bit unsual so they report rpoblem with that email services. some yahoo groups to behave in a way they didn't predict it seems trew PS thanks indeed for taking time to find out what happens. Last edited by trew : 3 Apr 2005 at 10:11 PM.

2 Apr 2005, 01:13 PM	#4
anonymous Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Downtown Switzerland Posts: 182	It's very fast and efficient, easy to handle and free there were discussions about this service before http://www.emaildiscussions.com/...ghlight=e4ward There's just one little thing.....the reply doesn't work with all email providers For example if I get a forwarded message through e4ward into my web.de inbox, the sender will appear like this userwebmail.comxxxxxxxxxx.e4ward.com77D4qes3@reply.e4ward.com web.de unfortunately doesn't allow to reply to such an weird email-address like that

4 Apr 2005, 03:45 PM	#11
Fenman Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: UK (East Anglia) Posts: 737	This thread made me think of using e4ward again so yesterday I set up Host Tracker to watch the site for reliaibilty. I've no way yet of knowing whether this is typical but on the first day of watching I had: "Url was down as a resultat of: Http error:502 Error was detected at 2005-04-03 23:18:10 Downtime total 8 hour(s) 16 min(s) 39 sec(s)." Doesn't seem like a good start, though.

4 Apr 2005, 04:58 PM	#12
trew Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sweden Posts: 836	If they have a rep here maybe ... he or she could tell us ifthat was a planned downtime. I 'm soo lucky that my glocalnet.net account give me almost infinite alias in crude way if I limit my behavior to have 5 at a time and drop one of them if I need a new one. Seems enough for my usage of email. Spray.se allow you to create new account too if it get spammed. trew