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Are you still feeling the effects of your holiday activities from last Christmas, Hanukkah, etc.? Those holidays are clearly a loooooooooong time ago, but it’s very likely that your inbox is still still feeling a bit full from your online holiday shopping.
For years, near the end-of-year holidays, Emailias has changed its “banners” to remind people to use Emailias for online holiday shopping. We also always encourage our members to share Emailias with friends and family for free during the end-of-the-year.
Emailias has a 60-day free trial membership available any time of the year. But this is also plenty of time for an end-of-year online holiday shopping spree. Truth is, that most people who really use Emailias end-up signing-up for the whole year. They get that feeling of inner-warmth, knowing that the end-of-year shopping-binge won’t result in a year’s worth of ongoing spam. It’s like that full-tummy feeling of warm mulled apple cider, all year around. Your inbox will thank you, and you’ll thank yourself.
Remember: friends don’t give friends spam for the holidays! It’s never too early or too late to try Emailias, or to share it with friends and family so they can also have that save, loved, warm feeling all year ’round.
Happy safe shopping! And until the end-of-the year….Happy safe summer! (or “winter” to our many good friends in the southern hemisphere 
)
You’re probably saying to yourself, how can anybody like spam? Well, after reading this, you might just change your mind. Okay, okay…I’m playing a bit of a joke. This article is actually about Spam, the glorious luncheon meat (-ish?) product created by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
Given today’s harder economic times, there are many new articles being written about Spam’s popularity increasing. I’ve always heard that it’s been quite popular in Hawaii and in some Asian countries. The Star-Telegram has written a good summary of the the uptick in Spam popularity.
I for one know that I’ll be enjoying some Spam this summer…while working hard to keep everyone else safe from the other spam. Bon appetit!
UPDATE: Maintenance is finished. Enjoy!
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This week, there have been a number of articles about “the most spammed person in the world”. It turns out that this guy lives in the United Kingdom. Clearly, this guy isn’t using Emailias! :-) ZDNet writes about this announcement here.
The announcement is from a UK-based company called ClearMyMail. While they don’t use the same principles as Emailias, we always applaud all well-mannered attempts to help people avoid spam.
Emailias works best when you give a new and different “email alias” address to each different website that you visit. Many of our members easily use Emailias to keep long-lasting relationships with hundreds of different websites. We help you remember which emailias is used for which website…it’s very convenient.
Our members (including me!) feel comfortable having so many relationships with so many different websites precisely because they feel safe. We know that we always have a choice about future emails because we can (1) exactly identify who sent the email, and (2) always turn off that email address if we ever decide we don’t want the emails (for any reason!).
As a member of Emailias, you feel free and confident. So many people, so many relationships, so much freedom, so much fun…and yet…so little spam!
Your inbox. Your choice. Your Emailias!
A few days ago an anonymous user posted a warning to several internet newsgroups, accusing Emailias of stealing from its customers. Ouch! We’re not sure what this is about. We believe we offer a useful service at a fair price, and we always respond to customer concerns.
To the poster, we would say: We respect the protection of one’s identity on the internet. It’s at the core of what we’re about. But if you’re not willing to come forward with your issue, we can’t do anything to make things right. If you have a problem, tell us what it is and we’ll get to the bottom of it.
The problem has been fixed. You can read about the original problem at these two posts (original post and follow-up post)
Emailias has now been moved to a new IP block, which means that we are not being blocked by Spamhaus. We are now on “clean” IP addresses, which means that we’re responible for our own email traffic. “Nearby” traffic shouldn’t affect our reputation within the anti-spam community.
We apologize that this happened, and that it took several days to fix. We also thank you all for your patience and understanding, and feedback (both good and “constructive”).
It is possible that some of your email has not been delivered to you. If you were expecting important emails, you may want to follow-up with the sender to ensure that you get what you need.
If you turned on the “Temporary Cc to Target” feature, then you can turn it off when you’re comfortable that your email has returned to its normal behavior.
Lastly, please feel free to send any questions, comments, or concerns to our support address (support[at]emailias.com).
This is another urgent post. Please read it to ensure that you receive all of your email. This is a continuation of this earlier service announcement of a problem.
There is now a new feature on the properties page for each target email address. It is called “Temporary Cc to Target”. When used, it will send a copy of all emails sent to the target to another target address of your choosing.
For example, if you think that you are not receiving all of your email to your Comcast or RoadRunner target email address, then you should do the following:
- Ensure that you have a target address that is not having problems (such as a Yahoo! email address). You can create a new Yahoo! email address if you need to, and then validate it as a target in your Emailias account.
- Go to the Properties page for the problem target address (i.e. your Comcast address).
- Look for the table property named “Temporary Cc to Target”, and select your good target address (@Yahoo!).
- Click the “Save” button.
- Once the problem is corrected, you can stop the duplicate emails by changing the value back to “None”.
That is all that you should need to do. You’ll now receive duplicates in your Yahoo! account of all emails that are being forwarded to your Comcast email address by Emailias.
Regarding the original problem (see earlier blog post), we are working to change our IP addresses altogether to remove ourselves from the “spam neighborhood”.
We have also tried contacting Spamhaus, but have received no response back from them.
We realize that this is a very serious concern and very frustrating for all of our members. We are working to get this resolved quickly to help restore your emails to you. As always, please send any feedback or questions to the support email address (support[at]emailias.com).
This is an urgent service announcement for all current Emailias users. Please read to ensure that you continue to receive your email.
A few days ago, Spamhaus identified the entire IP block that Emailias is in as a source of spam (note that we are *NOT* the source of the spam). This is like identifying a whole neighborhood as hoodlums when there are actually only one or two hoodlums in the neighborhood…since we’re in that neighbhood, we’re also being classified as spammers.
Some ISPs use Spamhaus as a way to identify spam and to then identify, refuse or dispose of email that is comes from our servers. It is possible that your ISP is doing this.
In the short term, check if you have a “spam” folder with your ISP email account to see if it contains emails from Emailias (this seems to happen with gmail). Some ISP email accounts altogether refuse the email from our servers (Comcast is one). Some ISPs may actually dispose of the emails. Some ISPs seem unaffected (Yahoo! email seems to be unaffected).
Until this is fixed (hopefully within the next day or two), we recommend that you change your target email address to an email account that is not using Spamhaus to classify and block spam. Again, Yahoo! email seems a good temporary target. There are probably others.
We are looking into fixing this in a couple of ways. We will be changing the IP addresses within the next day or two (essentially moving us out of the bad neighborhood). Once this occurs, email should be flowing normally.
It is possible that emails sent to your account in the last few days will not be recoverable. This depends on how your ISP is setup to handle spam emails.
We apologize for this extreme inconvenience and urge you to contact us with any questions or concerns by sending email to our support email address (support[at]emailias.com).
Hi there friends! Last August, Emailias celebrated the sixth anniversary of its public launch date–Yea! During those years, there have been a few changes here and there on the site, and a few changes to the company itself. All the while, Emailias has continued to work to prove itself deserving of the role of leader for dedicated (and disposable) email addresses!
To our many loyal members: we know that you use Emailias as an integrated part of your Web experience. Emailias lets you feel free and avoid the consequence of unknown bad decisions (”Gee, I wish I didn’t give my email address to that site!“). You rely on being able to quickly create a new email address, recall an existing email address, or to recall your usernames and passwords for your websites. Emailias is very important to you, and we hear you.
Last month, we did some major upgrading to Emailias. We moved to powerful new servers and a (very fast!) new hosting facility. These new servers and network mean that you have Emailias whenever you need it, as fast as you need it.
There will be some more changes coming in the next few months. We’re aiming to make Emailias even more useful and enjoyable. The Emailias blog launched last week (which is what you’re reading now, so thanks for visiting!). Please keep an eye on this blog and on the site for more interesting things to come. Thanks to all of our members who “Live the Life Emailias”. Also, We’d like to say a very special thanks for your continued feedback, suggestions and for your many emails of gratitude. We’re glad you find us helpful, useful, and even friendly. Always feel free to let us know what you love, what you don’t love, or drop us a line just to say “Hi”.