Getting Started With The SpamJadoo

Understanding The SpamJadoo Difference

Before getting started using your new KeyMail addresses you will need to understand how this system works and what that means for you the user.  On the surface, using SpamJadooMail addresses will be just like using any email address.  In fact, you can use it exactly like a traditional email address.  However, if that is all you do you will not be experiencing the power or the protection of The SpamJadoo.

One of your primary goals in using SpamJadoo is to stop the flood of SPAM that you have been getting using your tradtional email address.  If you are like most email users today, you spend too many hours wading through unwanted and time wasting junk mail.  Wouldn't it be nice if you could make all of this SPAM just disappear.  It would be even better if you could keep new SPAMMERS from getting their messages to you.  Well that is exactly what The SpamJadoo was designed to do.  SpamJadoo will block unwanted emails from ever arriving in your inbox.  In fact, Titan Key will block unwanted emails from every arriving to your Internet Service Providers network.  This will ultimately mean more bandwidth for you to enjoy the Internet.

If that is all SpamJadoo did I am sure you would be happy.  However, that is just the beginning of the how using SpamJadoo is going to change your email experience.  Your email address is no longer just a tradtional Internet email address - it is now a KeyMail address.  What is a KeyMail address?  It is an email address that is protected by The Titan Key.  It is an email address that allows you to choose who can send you email.  It is a new kind of email address that is LOCKABLE.  So what does having a lockable keymail address do for you?  Let's consider how you normally use email and suggest ways that your new KeyMail addresses (that's right addresses) can help improve your email experience.

Preparing To Use SpamJadoo

Initially you will be using your keymail address just like you would a traditional email address.  However, you will want to do a few things to get prepared to unlock the power of using SpamJadoo.  Let's consider how you normally use your email for a moment.  Probably one of your primary uses of email is to communicate with friends, family, or people you do business with.  For many email users around the world this modern form of communication has replaced writing letters. 

Another real common use of email is to send and/or receive newsletters.  This is another form of communication that has greatly benefited from the power of the Internet.  I have many friends who now regularly communicate with their family and friends by sending out a monthly newsletter.  Most major news and magazine publications now have an online version available via signup from the Internet.  Many times these are delivered to you as a link in an email.

Perhaps one of the most hyped use of the Internet is to shop online.  It is also a trend that has slowly caught on and is now consider commonplace.  If fact, many of you might find it convenient to order things online.  However, newsletters and online shopping are two great ways that SPAMMERS find out about your email address and start sending you unwanted emails.  So this is an area where SpamJadoo can really help you out.  You can setup specific keymail addresses for each newsletter or magazine you subscribe to.  Then only that organization can send you email using that keymail address.  They can sell or give away your address, but no one else will be able to use it unless you specifically allow them to.

How many of you in sales and marketing are using email as a way of gather and communicating with your new business leads.  Wouldn't it be nice to be able to monitor exactly what leads come in from your various marketing efforts?  With keymail addresses you can create a unique keymail for each marketing or sales event.  Then anyone who uses that keymail address you will know was a lead from that particular event.  You can even make the keymail address only good for a specific period of time. 

Are you worried that some email will not get through to you?  Well remember, you can always create a few public keymail addresses that you can handout that are wide open.  This allows you to publish a public keymail address on your business card and still be protected.  If anyone sends you email to your public keymail address and you no longer want to communicate with them you can quickly tell SpamJadoo to stop accepting email for that user while continuing to communicate with others using the same address.

So that should get you started thinking about how you can use keymail addresses.  Now let's look at what you should do to get started using your new SpamJadoo KeyMail addresses.

Step One - Start Out In Silent Mode

The best approach for someone that is converting an existing email address into a keymail address is to set SpamJadoo to operate in Silent Mode.  In the mode of operation, you can start letting SpamJadoo learn who you send email to.  SpamJadoo begins to add all of your outgoing email addresses to your personal whitelist of approved senders.  Otherwise in Silent Mode there is no difference for using your traditional email address.  Anyone can send email to you and you will receive as normal.

Create A Few Useful KeyMail Addresses

Another good thing to do while you are operating in Silent Mode is to create a few new keymail addresses for later use.  For example, if you want a public keymail address to use so that you can give anyone you meet that email then create a public keymail.  Your current keymail address is by default a public keymail address.  You might also want to create a couple private keymails that you will only give out to a select group of people you want to send to you.  Keymails are easy to create and there is no limit to the number you can have associated with your primary Keymail address.  You might start thinking about how you will use Keymails to control of your Internet email communication.

Import Your Existing Email Address Book

Another important task you will want to do early on is to import any existing emails from you email addressbook into your pre-approved whitelist.  This task is very simple especially if you are using Outlook or Outlook Express.  Don't worry if you are not using one of those two email clients.  You can always upload any email addresses as a text file through our Import Addresses feature within the User Dashboard.

Build A List Of Your Newsletter Email Addresses

Start putting your newsletters into a separate folder until you have all of your regular ones collected in a folder.  Once again, if you use Outlook or Outlook Express you can easily add these addresses to your whitelist through our handy utility.  Otherwise, you will need to put these addresses into a single textfile and use the import addresses feature to add all of your newsletters to your whitelist. 

Step Two - Switch To Passive Mode

By this time you should have all of your regular email addresses stored in your whitelist and are ready to move to the next phase of turning on the power of SpamJadoo.  You can now switch your operation mode to Passive Mode.  In this mode SpamJadoo functions just like Silent mode, except it now begins placing "UNKNOWN" into the header of any incoming email message that is not already in your whitelist.

You can easily see these emails and determine if they are someone you want to communicate with.  If they are you can change that address to a pre-approved status easily in your Dashboard.  If you can see that they are a SPAMMER you can change the status of that email address to SPAMMER. Titan Key still let their email pass through until you go to Active Mode.  At that point SpamJadoo will automatically start blocking any mail from that particular email address. 

Other than marking emails with unknown this is the biggest change in Passive Mode.

Continue Using Email As Usual

How long you operate in Passive Mode is up to you.  SpamJadoo will continue to mark incoming emails that it can not validate as "UNKNOWN".  You should soon notice that almost all of the email SpamJadoo marks as "UNKNOWN" is from a SPAMMER sending you unwanted emails.  A few might be from someone you want to get email from, so you will need to mark them as
pre-approved during this phase of using SpamJadoo.   Once you mark them as pre-approved in your Dashboard the "UNKNOWN" tag will no longer be added to emails from this adddress.

Examine Your Incoming Emails For Unknowns

Okay, you now have been using your keymail address for long enough.  You understand how it works.  You ahve been examining your incoming emails for "UNKNOWNS" and have a good understanding of how is sending you unwanted emails.  You also have been looking at your Dashboard and seen how Titan Key is placing addresses into the various categories.  Anyone you send email to will be added to your pre-approved whitelist and will appear in that area of your Dashboard.  Anyone mark as unknown will approve in that area of your Dashboard.  Anyone you have marked as a spammer will appear in the SPAMMERS section of your Dashboard.

Enough already - I want the SPAM to go away.  So you are ready to start letting SpamJadoo do what it was designed to do - block unwanted emails.  You are ready to go activate your SpamJadoo protection.

Step Three - Switch to Active Mode

Now you can go to the Dashboard and change SpamJadoo's mode of operation to active.  At this point things begin to change.  First, only those addresses that are on your whitelist as approved senders can send you email in the regular fashion.  Second, any address you have marked as a SPAMMER will automatically be blocked and you will not see anymore of their emails again.  Everyone one else sending you email will have two things happen the first time they try to send you email. 

First, SpamJadoo will reject their email and return an UNKNOWN SENDER error code.  Second, SpamJadoo sends a validation invitation to the address that tried to send you email.  If it is someone who actually exists and not an automatted SPAMMER program they can respond to your validation invitation and go through a challenge / response validation process.  Once they successfully respond to your validation challenge they get added to the validated senders section of the SpamJadoo database and they are now approved senders on your whitelist.

Remember, anyone you send email to is automatically added to your whitelist as a
pre-approved sender.  One way to avoid new senders getting a challenge response message would be to send them an email first.  This opens up the communication channels through SpamJadoo.  Another way would be to start using your new KeyMail addresses.

Start Giving Out Your KeyMail Addresses

Okay, now is the time you start giving out your keymail addresses.  If you are going to sign-up for a new newsletter or online magazine, create a special keymail just for that purpose.  If you create a unique keymail for each new newsletter you want to receive you can ensure that the keymail address you provide can only be used to send you the newsletter you subscribed to.  Even if they were to sell or give away your address it will not work for anyone else unless you want it to work.

If you are a business person create a public keymail and have that address printed on your business card.  Now anyone that sends to that keymail address will not receive a Challenge / Response validation request.  This allows you to continue doing business communications without interruption.  However, if you ever start getting emails from someone you don't want to receive email from, you can do one of two things.  

One, you can force that person to go through a validation process - in case they are a real person.  Two, you can just mark their email address as a SPAMMER and you will no longer get anything from that particular address. 

If you start getting lots of unwanted emails you can lock that particular keymail address (you will be able to see which keymail the sender was using) and only those approved senders can still use the keymail address.  Anyone new will just have there emails rejected.  If it really gets out of hand you can disable that keymail address, create a new one and start using the new address.  You are in control and now through the power of The SpamJadoo you have options at your fingertips to allow you to take charge of your email.

Check Your Dashboard On A Regular Basis

During the first few days and weeks you start using SpamJadoo in active mode you will want to check the Dashboard daily to see what is going on.  Gradually, you will probably notice that you don't go to the Dashboard as often as before.  This is because most of the time SpamJadoo will just work and you will not have to do anything.  Soon you will only go to the Dashboard to create a new keymail or change the status of a sender's address or make changes in your personal Dashboard settings.  Now instead of spending your time deleting SPAM, the power and protection of SpamJadoo will provide you more time to do what you need or want to do.

Rethink How You Use Email

SpamJadoo's difference does require you to rethink how you use email.  Also with just a little thought on your part you can begin to come up with new ways to use keymail addresses.  Now you are really starting to take advantage of the power of SpamJadoo.  You have flexibility to use email in ways that you do not with traditional email.

Enjoy The Protection and Freedom of SpamJadoo

SpamJadoo will protect your incoming email and free you from the burdens of SPAM.  Using SpamJadoo will also free up valuable bandwidth and resources for your service provider.  This in turn should make your overall user experience with your service provider better.  So now instead of having to change ISPs and throw away all of those old email addresses that are mostly recieving SPAM, you can reclaim them. 

Welcome to the SpamJadoo family of users.  We hope your experience using SpamJadoo will be as positive as ours. 

SpamJadoo Software www.SpamJadoo.com, © 1 January, 2005