# Mission Aviation Fellowship implements anti-spam product

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/07/28/mission-aviation-fellowship-implements-antispam-product/
- Published: 2003-07-28T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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

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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.

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.”

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