SpamCop Email System Tips

This page is devoted to tips and techniques to help you get the most out of the SpamCop Email System.

Managing your held mail

You will probably want to occasionally check your held mail to see if something was blocked that shouldn't have been. You can do this by clicking the Held Mail icon at the very top of the webmail or by just going to this link. From here, you can forward email that was held but shouldn't have been. You can also add those senders to your own personal whitelist, to make sure that they won't be held again.

Blocking more spam

By default, only the SpamCop Blacklist is turned on, but there are several more you can choose. Turning these on will block a little more spam, but might block a few more legitimate emails, too. To turn on more blacklists, login to webmail, then click Options, then SpamCop Tools, then "Select your email filtering blacklists."

Blocking all spam

SpamCop blocks 80-90% of all spam normally. To block all spam, you can tell us to hold every email that is from a sender who is not on your whitelist. Go to the blacklists section described above and check "Block All". You can use the Held Mail management to forward the good mail and build your whitelist.

Avoiding mail loops

The most common way to set up the mail is to forward your mail to your new spamcop.net address or have us POP it from your current ISP. Then change your email program to read it from our POP server. You never want to forward an account to us and then forward from us back to that same account. This is a mail loop and will make your mail bounce.

Configurable addresses

You can follow the first part of your email address with a + and then anything. For example, if your email address is billybob@spamcop.net, you can receive email sent to billybob+amazon@spamcop.net. Some people use this to filter their email or to find out who is selling their email address.

Personal whitelists and blacklists

You can set up lists of users you want to receive email from or you never want to receive email from. Login to webmail as above, click Options, then SpamCop Tools.

Held Mail report

You can receive a Held Mail report on the days you choose. This report details all the held mail you have received since the last time to logged in to webmail. Go to the SpamCop Tools section as above, then click the first option.

Lots more FAQs

We have lots more FAQs about SpamCop or the SpamCop Email System. Go here for general FAQs or here to jump to the email FAQs.