No Software To Install, Nothing To Download

Most spam filters require that you purchase, download, and then install their software on your system. Others tout the advantage of purchasing yet another piece of hardware. With either option you then have to configure and maintain the new system, constantly check for upgrades and likely manage the rules and filters used to identify spam on a very regular basis.

All of this requires an ongoing commitment of time, consumes your system's limited resources and adds another technical process that is prone to both security exploits and failure. Meanwhile, your overall computer/network performance is reduced and conflicts with other programs and peripherals can occur, potentially resulting in system-wide failures.

Additionally, most solutions require that you wait for all of your email to download before it can be filtered and sorted. On top of this, these solutions seldom work with more than a few email clients, and they only work when you're accessing email from the computer/network where the filtering solution is installed.

By contrast, at OnlyMyEmail we maintain all of the technology on our servers, checking and cleaning your email 24 hours a day. This allows you to access filtered email from any computer, anywhere, anytime, and all while enjoying the best Spam and Virus blocking technology available.

Broad Platform Support

Another advantage of running Spam and Virus filtering on our servers (instead of your systems) is that OnlyMyEmail works independently from the email software or server platform you use. While most anti-spam solutions function with just a handful of systems, OnlyMyEmail will work with:

• Any program that supports POP or IMAP, including but not limited to: Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Pegasus, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, ACT!, GoldMine, etc.
• Any standard POP or IMAP email account, even including AOL.
• Entire domains through our Corporate MX-Defender regardless of the server platform, hardware or software in use.

Not only will this unlimited platform support benefit you immediately, but your email security will continue uninterrupted during any future software or hardware maintenance, upgrades, patches and even entire system migrations as well.

Minimal "Critical" False-Positives

The biggest challenge in Spam filtering isn't identifying junk email; the difficult part is making sure that you don't delete legitimate email (a false-positive result) in the process.

While this might not sound like an important issue at first, what happens when a prospect, customer or client sends you email that you never receive? Depending on your business, this might simply cause delays in customer service. However, if missing an important message damages the relationship or causes the loss of business, then the cost could be substantial.

While every filtering provider claims very low false-positive rates, independent research has shown that even the better ones still block anywhere from 1% to 2% of legitimate email.

You should know that the minimization of critical false-positives is integrated into the very core functions of the OnlyMyEmail system. Rather than simply looking for a reason to label an email as Spam (what most filters really do) OnlyMyEmail processes each email through multiple analysis engines looking for evidence that a message is legitimate.

We've built our business by more accurately filtering Spam (and not critical legitimate email) than anyone else, and have reduced "critical false-positives" to less than 10 per million emails.

No Lost Productivity Managing Spam

Because most spam filters create a substantial rate of false-positives, they often don't actually delete spam but instead move suspect messages into another folder or modify the "Subject" line to indicate the message's spam probability.

These tactics leave the burden of reviewing each and every single message with you, requiring a substantial amount of time and effort, day in and day out. When you grow tired of reviewing every piece of suspected spam (and you will) and simply begin automatically emptying or ignoring the contents of this additional folder, the vendors of these filters can claim that they didn't delete any of your legitimate email, you did!

Another common technique used to cover up false-positives is to simply bounce suspect email back to the sender. The rationalization is that if the sender is legitimate, then they will either try again, or will pick up the phone and call you. If you think that receiving Spam is currently taking too much of your time, just imagine the time (and business) that will be lost dealing with those who have had their legitimate email "bounced" as undeliverable.

Finally, many systems actually require the people who send you any email (regardless of the content) to "verify" that they are real people, sending a legitimate message. This inconvenience is accomplished by initially blocking and bouncing all of your incoming email and then requiring the original sender to visit a web site to answer a few questions, or by replying with a second "confirmation" message to the blocking system.

Though your close family and friends might put up with this, the inconvenience is extreme. Particularly so for those who might write you from more than one email account, as they will have to validate each and every address they use.

Worse yet, if you use email for business, then you can rest assured that this will cost you potentially profitable relationships as your competitors are responding to prospects while your system is bouncing leads waiting for additional "verification" from the sender.

Because OnlyMyEmail's critical false-positives rate is so low, our customers are spared from all of this wasted time and effort, and the potentially lost business opportunities as well.

While you can always review and retrieve any email that we have deleted, after a week or two of initial training you'll find our filters to be more reliable and accurate than any other in existence today.

Gain Real Control Over Your Email

The typical spam filter relies on rather simplistic key words, rules, "blocked senders" and statistical analysis. Because of this, they will never be able to offer the real-world results that most users want. They will block legitimate email that you wish to receive, and let through email that you do not want; simply because an email that represents spam to some users might be considered legitimate and desired by others.

Most of us can agree that the Internet scams, pitches for Viagra, pornographic email solicitations and get-rich-quick schemes are junk. But, would everyone agree about an email from Amazon, Expedia, or even Wal-Mart that is only sent to existing customers?

Some users may not want to receive such emails, but others do. Whether or not these emails are spam depends on who you ask, and this is why no other solution can fulfill the promise of eliminating spam with such simplistic methods.

On the other hand, OnlyMyEmail offers you control of the filtering process in ways that no one else can. By simply answering a few questions, OnlyMyEmail allows you to be free from spam, based on your own unique needs and preferences.

More importantly, OnlyMyEmail learns from your email and your interactions with the system to adjust to your preferences in real time. As a result, OnlyMyEmail's determination of what represents "junk email" is actually unique to each of our customers. With OnlyMyEmail, you receive the email that you want, and we block the ones that you don't.

Complete Privacy & Efficiency

We know that our clients want their email interactions to be what they used to be: fast and efficient. Because of this, you won't find any banner advertisements or "pop-up" windows slowing down access to any part of our site.

Naturally, we will not share any of your personal information with anyone else, and we are not going to try to cross-sell other products or services to you either.

We're just here to filter your email and return control of your email communications to you. You'll find that every part of the OnlyMyEmail system is specifically designed to respect our client's time and privacy.