An Automation of Mail Channels

Mail channels allow an electronic mail (e-mail) user to have multiple points of contact, each with a potentially different policy. For example, a user may have two channels, one for personal use and one for business use. The former channel's policy may accept all senders and the latter channel's may restrict senders to those within a given company. By extending this example, an e-mail user can have a channel unique to each contact. Each of these channels may have a policy that limits its use to the particular contact. Traditionally, this scenario requires substantial administrative overhead, making it impractical. The system proposed here, the Spam Free Mail (SFM) service,1 automates the creation of mail channels. SFM's restrictive mail channels effectively eliminate a considerable part of e-mail abuse, such as spam and phishing.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: AICT
• Authors: Nicholas M. Boers, Pawel Gburzynski
• Keywords: AICT 2006, Communications, Electronic Mail, Mail Channels, Restrictive Mail Channels