The new class of free email service where spam can't reach you.


Mailblocks AntiSpam Service.

Mailblocks is a personal, web-based email service designed to eliminate spam from your life. When you sign up for Mailblocks, you receive a new email account that you can start using right away to block spam. You can then set up this account so that messages sent to your other email addresses arrive in your Mailblocks Inbox—spam free. Mailblocks will work with Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo!Mail, AOL, and your POP3 account (the email address you use through your Internet Service Provider). This extends Mailblocks' spam-free benefits to all your other addresses—so all you ever see is the email you want. Mailblocks has a great looking web interface and you can even access Mailblocks through popular email programs such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Entourage, Eudora and Apple Mail.

Mailblocks, Inc., founded by WebTV co-founder and former Microsoft executive Phil Goldman, was started with a simple idea: improve the consumer email experience; make it faster, more manageable and — above all else — free from the aggravation of spam (unsolicited, computer-generated email). Mailblocks is located in downtown Los Altos: 201 Main Street, Suite 100, Los Altos, California, 94022 USA.

Using state-of-the-art technology, an assemblage of talented, zealous and experienced individuals and a customer research-driven development model, Mailblocks has created a new web-based personal email service. It was designed from the ground up to give consumers the features they want, and the feel of a desktop application, without the spam they loathe.

Common to every Mailblocks employee is a burning desire to create the world’s best personal email service. The Mailblocks team possesses extensive knowledge and experience with online services, subscriptions, software design and information management.

You can still keep your existing email addresses.

Even though you get a new email address when sign up for Mailblocks, you can still keep your existing email addresses. Since we manage your other email accounts for you, your contacts can continue to send email to you at your old addresses and you will receive their mail in your Mailblocks Inbox. Here are a few more details about this:

* If you are managing your Yahoo!Mail, Hotmail, MSN or AOL address through Mailblocks, your reply address will be your Mailblocks address.

* If you own your own domain name, you can set it up in Mailblocks so that you can send from this address—this is helpful if you run a small business or have a custom domain (example: me@johnsmith.com).

Mailblocks keeps you spam-free with Challenge/Response 2.0 technology.

Once you sign up for Mailblocks, you can bring in your contacts or address books from your other email services or applications and this automatically approves all of these senders to email you. When they email you, their messages go right into your Inbox. If someone sends email to you and they are not in your address list, their message will be sent to your "Pending" folder and they will automatically be sent an email asking them to prove that they are a human and not a spamming computer (we call this email a Challenge email). They simply click on a link in this email, visit our web site, type a seven digit code on the page and hit Submit (this one-time process usually takes less than 10 seconds).

Once they do this, their message moves from your Pending folder right to your Inbox, their email address is added to your Contacts list and subsequent emails are not challenged.

How it works...

When Deb, a Mailblocks customer, brings in her address books from her existing email accounts and email programs, all of the people on her lists are "whitelisted" and approved to send email to her inbox.

Ryan, a sender who is not in Deb’s address book, sends his first email to Deb.

Ryan is not a recognized sender so a Challenge message is generated. Ryan’s email is temporarily held in Deb’s Pending folder.

Ryan responds to the email by typing the seven digit code he sees on the screen.

Ryan’s email is now OK for automatic delivery to Deb’s inbox.

Simple as 1,2,3...!

Mailblocks currently offers the following three plans:

Free Service:
Challenge/Response spam-blocking,
5MB of storage,
5 “Tracker” email addresses to manage newsletter and mailing list relationships,
15 Email rules,
Advertising supported.

Basic Service: $9.95/year
Comes with a hefty 15 megabytes of storage,
15 “Tracker” email addresses to manage newsletter and mailing list relationships,
25 Email rules,
Spam-free protection for 3 existing email accounts and forwarding for up to 10 email accounts,
Can be used with Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Entourage or Apple Mail,
6MB attachment size.

Premium Service: $24.95/year
Comes with a whopping 100 megabytes of storage,
25 “Tracker” email addresses to manage newsletter and mailing list relationships,
50 Email rules,
Send and receive attachments of up to 6 megabytes per email,
Spam-free protection for 3 existing email accounts and forwarding for up to 10 email accounts,
Can be used with Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Entourage or Apple Mail,
6MB attachment size.

If you signed up for the Free Service, you can upgrade at any time and keep the same email address. Your new service plan features will be available immediately after you upgrade.

If you purchase the Basic Service under the promotional offer, you can upgrade to our Premium Service at any time within the first 3 years for an additional $15.00. Your new renewal date will be one year from the date of upgrade. At renewal, the regular cost for the Premium Service will apply (currently $24.95/year).

The Mailblocks Basic and Premium accounts let you manage up to 10 additional email addresses through your Mailblocks Inbox. You can either forward your email to your Mailblocks account or we can retrieve your email from your other accounts. If you forward your email, it will get to your Mailblocks account faster, but some email services may charge you to forward your email. If we retrieve it for you, we check it every 12 hours and deliver it to your Inbox. If you are actively using a desktop email program (like Microsoft Outlook Express), then we deliver it every two hours.

When you purchase either Mailblocks premium service, we provide a handy wizard to help you quickly set up all of your accounts.

The Mailblocks Free Service currently does not offer management of additional email accounts.

3 easy steps to set up spam-free email.

1. Create your Mailblocks account. If you already have an account, you're 1/3 of the way there!
2. Set up your old email to Forward to your new Mailblocks account, or set up Email Accounts.
3. Setup your email program to retrieve your emails from your new Mailblocks account—or, if you'd rather check your email using a web browser, you're already done.

What People Are Saying About Mailblocks.

"I've been using Mailblocks for several months now and I absolutely love it. Heck, I liked the first release, so after all of the upgrades I am really in heaven. It looks great and even better it functions well. I have come to rely on it and have let my Hotmail account languish." - Brett Tarnutzer, Mailblocks customer.

"Mailblocks to the Rescue—with Mailblocks, I get Z-E-R-O spam messages. None. Da nada. Zippo. Zilch. Mailblocks makes email be what email was meant to be: a handy way for friends, family, and customers to contact me -- with no spam allowed. After signing up for just $9.95 per year (actually, I took advantage of a special that gave me three years of service for that price -- an incredible bargain!), I now pull email from my three primary addresses through the Mailblocks.com server. There, all spam is forcefully extracted using the most ingenious, most fool-proof method I've ever heard of: challenge-response technology." - Mark, Mailblocks customer, madebymark.com.

"Mailblocks Rules! It has been about two weeks since I have been using Mailblocks and I continue to love it more and more. I recently returned from being away from my computer for 3 days and when I checked my mail I found only approved mail in my inbox and all the other crap in my pending folder. It was heaven. Please thank your team for making such a wonderful application! It truly is amazing." - Daniel Paul, Mailblocks customer.

"I sure hope business is going well because I've never loved an email box before, but I sure do now. The whole thing is fast, it always works, it looks nice and it even smells good because it's never filled with trashy spam." - Suzie O’Hair, Mailblocks Customer.

"I love Mailblocks. :) You guys are doing a great job. Good to see some strong ideas coming to fruition in the computer industry. It's really impressive!" - Chris Elliott, Mailblocks Customer.

"Mailblocks changed my life. After one of my television advertisements on MSNBC aired during a controversial talk personality, I was receiving over 200 spam messages per hour. My assistant was wasting 4 hours per day just sorting-through my in-box. I almost abandoned the one address that most of my customers knew me as: bill@mintsnuff.com. Thanks, Mailblocks!" - Bill G., President, Oregon Mint Snuff Company.

"Spam Protection that Really Works I get a LOT of spam, hundreds of emails a day. And Mailblocks is the only system I've tried that actually STOPS it. When someone sends you an email, MailBlocks sends them a "challenge" email back--it's a message that can't be read by a computer, so only a real person can click on the link, then type in the number they see on-screen. Once someone does, they're added to your address book and their email comes through from then on without question. Since most spam is automated, and no one ever reads, much less follows through on replies, those emails are held for a week, then when no person verifies themselves, the email is deleted. You can manually review all "pending" mail and approve messages instantly if you wish. You can add your complete address book and then the people you know have their email accepted without a challenge message. You can even completely block email from addresses you don't want to receive from. The web-based interface is clear and well-designed. You can check your email both on the web, and through your email program, so it's handy when you're on the road, and you can still get all your email into your normal program for later reference. Mailblocks is simple, efficient, reliable, inexpensive, and increasingly a must-have to keep your emailbox from being overwhelmed with spam." - Daniel Will-Harris, Mailblocks Customer, will-harris.com.

"I like its speed... much faster than Hotmail! I also like the fact that I'm not inundated with lots of spam messages every day" - Mailblocks User.

"It's better than anything else out there, and I like the setup better than my Hotmail account. It's also more reliable." - Mailblocks User.

"Easy to manage mail and create folders, the options are nice. Trackers are nothing I have seen before. I think it really fights spam mail." - Mailblocks User.

"Mailblocks is well focused on the needs of the email customer, not the business interests of portals and ISPs. This fact alone means Mailblocks is delivering a better quality experience than you'll find with free Webmail services. Just as Google entered the search engine market dominated by portal players and delivered a better, more focused Web search experience, Mailblocks' solitary purpose is to craft a first-rate personal email service. And they have done just that. That experience alone is worth the price, but when you consider that Mailblocks provides the most effective anti-spam solution found in Web-based mail services, I'm confident people will pay for this personal email service." - Chris Shipley, Executive Producer of the DEMO Conferences.

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