ChoiceMail - 100% of Junk Email Gone

re: ChoiceMail - 100% of Junk Email Gone

Blake Handler — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:19:50 GMT

I have a few clients using this service -- and they too love it.

But you missed one cool feature . . . you get special choicemail email accounts that can safely be posted in public. (As opposed your "real" email address).

re: ChoiceMail - 100% of Junk Email Gone

John Gallagher — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:23:09 GMT

THe product sounds great. I've been using MailWasher (which also checks mail at the server) but this might be better.

Do you know if it works under Vista?

re: ChoiceMail - 100% of Junk Email Gone

Reynolds Kosloskey — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:53:45 GMT

Noah,

I totally agree with your positive endorsement of the technology. My wife uses ChoiceMail, and I use Qurb. Both of these products do pretty much the same thing, challenge/response sender verification.

I have found that Choicemail's setup is a little more involved, as it runs outside of your email client and needs to be the middleman. My wife prefers this.

I prefer Qurb as it directly integrates with Outlook, and you do not have to reenter your authentication information, nor configure your client to hit ChoiceMail instead of the actual email server.

ChoiceMail DOES excel if you have multiple email accounts where you want SOME of those accounts C/R verified, and some not. With Qurb, it assumes it'll be C/R verifying all your email, regardless of the account.

The conspiracy theorist in me wants to believe that the big spam blocker companies really don't like this method of spam control because it doesn't necessitate subscriptions and updates... Could be wrong, but you never know...

Reynolds Kosloskey

http://rkosloskey.blogspot.com

re: ChoiceMail - 100% of Junk Email Gone

noahc — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:33:04 GMT

Blake,

I didn't know about the special ChoiceMail e-mail accounts, that sounds cool. Since my personal account is protected by ChoiceMail, I find it easiest just to use that one address for everything. It's cool how ChoiceMail gives you options like that.

re: ChoiceMail - 100% of Junk Email Gone

noahc — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:34:15 GMT

John,

I haven't heard of MailWasher and I don't know if ChoiceMail works well in Vista. If you try it, please let me know here in the comments. Thanks.

re: ChoiceMail - 100% of Junk Email Gone

noahc — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:36:10 GMT

Reynolds,

Cool, thanks for the info. I hadn't heard of Qurb. I spoke with the VP of DigiPortal and they said the next version of ChoiceMail will be more transparent and have a simplified configuration. For example, it will just listen on the SMTP port instead of being a proxy.

re: ChoiceMail - 100% of Junk Email Gone

Carolin Coad — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:11:47 GMT

Thanks to you, Noah, for setting up ChoiceMail on my computer for me, worrying about junk mail is a thing of the past. I used to have to wade through a majority of junk mail to read my mail, feeling polluted in the process. Now it's neat and clean and easy with no junk mail at all, just the good stuff. And I owe it all to you...

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re: ChoiceMail - 100% of Junk Email Gone

Midge — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:54:12 GMT

Hi Noah,

I've been a very happy ChoiceMail convert for two years to the point where I too have a review on my website + a comparison against its main competitor Qurb.

You said in your article:

"It will block mail from automated websites (like your PayPal account, bank statements, etc) unless you periodically check your ChoiceMail box for these types of mails and let them through".

I can assure you it doesn't have to! It's very easy to set up Choicemail "rules" with their powerful permission management functionality based on header, body, sender, subject content etc. - a bit like a firewall can be given rules to allow certain protocols, source addresses etc.

One of your points I'd like to strongly agree with you on is the success of this product really does depend on the challenge message you send out to people (which on the FREE version cannot be changed - a bit of a downside). You must get that right so people feel comfortable responding to it.

On a final point, you also comment about ChoiceMail being a possible problem for business. My view is the same permission system is sufficiently good that it *could* be setup to pick up keywords which a business would always expect to be in legitimate e-mails to them (their company name, product names etc.) in the same way as blacklist products try to find words or strings that are indicative of SPAM. That would cut down the number who receive a challenge.

Midge.

PS - I'm not connected with Digiportal either, I just think they have a remarkably effective product which turns the whole concept of dealing with SPAM on its head. It's as effective as firewall for the simple reason it behaves very much like one.

re: ChoiceMail - 100% of Junk Email Gone

deckie — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:46:02 GMT

Choicemail is a great product. I have used it for the past 2 years. Their support is pretty good. The knowledge base is particularly good. However, there hasn't been an update to the program for at least 18 months. I question if it is still being developed.

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noahc — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:41:12 GMT

deckie,

They just released a new version that I'm looking forward to trying. They tell me it's much easier and Vista compatible.

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Shailesh — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:38:48 GMT

Hello

Just came accross this article while browsing the internet to prepare a report for one of my customers.

I have been implementing ChoiceMail for the past two years and all of my customers are very impressed and happy.

In fact, i have seen this small piece of software working better than big names like 'Mimecast' and 'Mail Marshal'

All my customers are small to mid-sized financial management companies within Mauritius and they are 100% satisfied. Implementation is easy but it requires careful planning - make sure to create the whitelist and existing contacts from the current email system (outlook) otherwise there will be some angry senders out there!

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antonio — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:38:09 GMT

i want to use and value ChoiceMail

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anita swearengin — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:46:59 GMT

i recently received a request to verify who i am from a friend's new email account. i clicked on the link to verify but keep getting the message:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@theweindruchs.digiportal.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache/1.3.41 Server at cm.digiportal.com Port 80

what do i do now????

anita swearengin - tulsatwoputt@aol.com

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John the Nurse — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:47:04 GMT

I sent 2 emails to a nurse I work with, Sarah, who has this email service protection feature, provided to her by Noah. Both times it required I fillout an online form and key in a secret code to activate it.

It would be really nice if it could remember who I am so I don't keep having to do this

re: ChoiceMail - 100% of Junk Email Gone

Cees — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:12:34 GMT

A better anti spam program based on the same principle is XToMe (www.xtome.com).

It’s easier to install and work with. Different security levels of challenges.

Also free version available.

re: ChoiceMail - 100% of Junk Email Gone

Mark Nathan — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:28:07 GMT

Another program to try out is ChrysanthMailManager. Similar concept. Works flawlessly.

re: ChoiceMail - 100% of Junk Email Gone

F. C. Jones — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:58:37 GMT

ChoiceMail going Subscription! $19.95 per year (now).

What do you think?