TMDA

TMDA blocks your spam by implementing a “Challenge-Response” blocking method. When an unrecognized person sends an E-mail to you, TMDA will automatically send an E-mail back to that person to verify they are a “real person”. Once the person verifies their address, it will remember that person allowing them to E-mail you without disruption from then on. Verifying an address is easy – they simply select “Reply” to the E-mail that TMDA sends to them and send it back. If no one sends a reply back, the E-mail is then held in a pending list (you can check and allow mail from here as well) stopping it from being released into your mail client. The main reason that TMDA is so effective is that spammers often send their SPAM from fake E-mail addresses – thus, when TMDA sends the challenge, the spammer never has a chance to answer TMDA’s challenge, and you are never bothered by the SPAM.

Yes you are able to log into the TMDA interface and add addresses manually to avoid them having to deal with the challenge E-mail that is sent out by TMDA.

Log into the TMDA interface on our home page. Click “Lists” to the left, and click “Whitelist”. You will see a box on the right hand side. Add your E-mail address to this box. Make sure you have one address per line. If you wish to whitelist a whole domain (that means anyone from that domain can get to you) type it in like this aol.com (no @ or username) Click save at the bottom.

Yes, you can log into the TMDA interface and browse through the trapped E-mail and release things you might want. You have the choice to release them one time, or to add that person to your whitelist so they will be able to get through to you every time. To let an E-mail through one time, click the “Radio” button (the dot) to be underneath the checkmark for each E-mail you want to let through. To whitelist a person in the pending list, place the “dot” underneath the icon of the sheet of paper, and TMDA will whitelist that person.

No. the TMDA interface is where the E-mail considered to be “SPAM” resides. Your normal E-mail will continue to come to your E-mail client such as usual.

Log into the TMDA interface on our home page. You will see your pending list right away. (All the E-mail that TMDA has trapped) Locate the category lists at the top of your list under the “Execute” button. The check mark category will allow you to release the mail you chose one time only. The X will delete it and the piece of paper category will allow you to release that piece of mail and it will write it to the whitelist so it will be able to come through every time. Select the empty radio button next to the piece of mail you want to handle under the correct category and click “Execute” at the top. The action you have chosen will be preformed. Log out of TMDA and check your regular E-mail client!

When you log in for the first time it will ask you if you want to set up TMDA for your account.

You can find out more information at their website. http://tmda.net/

Blacklisting blocks any email from a specific email address. It should only be used if you are receiving unwanted email from a specific email address.

Blacklisting does NOT work well against spammers, since they use a different email address each time they send out spam. Also, since TMDA has to search through your Blacklist for every message that it receives, if the Blacklist gets too long, TMDA bogs down and cannot function properly.

Red Shift recommends that users do not blacklist spam messages from the Pending folder in TMDA. Instead, just delete them. You also have the option of just leaving the messages in the Pending folder, and TMDA will delete them automatically after 21 days.