Mission Aviation Fellowship implements anti-spam product
Howard Lake | 28 July 2003 | News
Global Christian organisation Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) Europe has taken action to stop unwanted and offensive e-mails reaching its users around the world by
implementing MailKey’s anti-spam system, JunkMail FireWall 5.5.
MAF worldwide supports over 300 Christian and humanitarian organisations with air transport, IT and logistics services in more than 30 countries, seven of which are MAF Europe operations. Spam has become a major problem for many of its users as thousands of unsolicited e-mails have penetrated existing filters.
JunkMail FireWall, developed by e-mail solutions experts MailKey, works on a
simple rule-based system which verifies that an e-mail is valid before letting it in. Mailkey say that the system excludes “all junk e-mail” from users’ e-mail boxes, whilst allowing all their real e-mail to be successfully delivered. If an e-mail is rejected, JunkMail FireWall puts the rejected e-mail in the user’s rejected mail folder. MailKey then asks the originator to verify they are a genuine sender, using MailKey’s simple coded system. Rejected e-mail can be checked and retrieved by the user at any time, and MailKey users can add senders to their “A-list” to prevent them being blocked each time.
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Luke Yates of MAF Europe said, “Before we implemented MailKey’s JunkMail FireWall technology, as much as 50% of the e-mail received by some of our users was unwanted Spam – some of which was extremely offensive. This has been completely eliminated by MailKey.”
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.