Standard email accounts set up on a domain are allocated 50MB space each and do not include spam filtering or anti-virus protection. You may upgrade individual mailbox accounts on your domain to Advanced Mailboxes at any stage. The cost is R250 (ex VAT) per mailbox per year and includes the following services:

• Spam filtering will be enabled on that particular mailbox
• Anti-virus protection will be enabled on that particular mailbox
• Mailbox size will be increased from basic 50MB size to 1GB on the server
• You will be given a control panel to toggle autoresponders, email passwords, forwarding options, spam filtering, etc.

A screenshot of the Administration tab of the Mailbox Control Panel (mcp) follows. You'll notice that you can change your password, set up an autoresponder on your email account, and more:


Spam Filtering:
Spam Filtering allows you to filter out unwanted or unsolicited emails from your inbox. We offer the industry's most advanced spam filtering solution, shown to catch up to 99% of unwanted email. Used by various Enterprise organisations worldwide, as well as the US Military, our Spam Filtering product is the best way to keep your mailbox free from junk mail. If certain messages still manage to infiltrate your mailbox, you can exclude them using the control panel. A screenshot of the Spam Filtering page of the Control Panel follows:


Anti-virus Software:
The server uses powerful, industry standard, virus scanning software. This is updated daily (or more often if necessary) with the signature files of the latest viruses.

Attachments with the following file types are all blocked automatically:
.vbs
.scr
.pif
.exe
.pl

If viruses are found in other types of attachment the files are, if at all possible, cleaned and delivered. Where attachments cannot be cleaned they are deleted.

Roaming SMTP:
Advanced Mailboxes come with roaming SMTP. With Standard Mailboxes, you need to use your ISP's outgoing (SMTP) mail server. With an Advanced Mailbox you have the option of using the LIT Creations server for outgoing email messages, instead of your ISP. Outgoing mail through our server is very reliable, seeing as the server is situated in the UK. Your outgoing mail server can therefore be set to, for example: smtp.yourdomain.co.za.