SpamCop Email Setup

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There are a variety of ways to use the SpamCop Email System. This is the most confusing part, so we'll explain all your various options in order from easiest and best to hardest. You'll need to pick one of these options to use the system.

First, no matter what choice you make you'll be given a new email address. You can either use this email address or your old address (or both) depending on which option you choose. It is important to note that you can always use your new email address if you want. In addition, several of the options allow you to use your old email address as well.
For the following examples, we'll assume your existing email address is bob@bigtimeisp.com and your new spamcop address is bob22@spamcop.net.

Method 1: Webmail

The easiest way to use the system is to simply start giving out your new email address bob22@spamcop.net to friends, family, and whenever you need to provide and email address online. You can check this email using the provided web-based email application, which works like hotmail.com or other popular web-based email services (but better).

Method 2: POP

The SpamCop Email System servers are also a standard POP server like nearly every ISP provides. You can easily configure any standard email program (Eudora, Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape, and others) to retrieve your mail from the SpamCop servers onto your PC. If you're using one of these programs today to download mail from your ISP, it would work exactly the same way using SpamCop.

Method 3: Forwarding to SpamCop

If your ISP can be configured to forward all mail which arrives for your email address to another email address, you can tell them to foward all your mail to your new spamcop.net address. In this case, you can continue to use your old email address bob@bigtimeisp.com or your new spamcop.net address interchangeably. They will both end up in your SpamCop inbox, which can be read using webmail or POP, as in methods 1 or 2.

Method 4: SpamCop Forwarding

The SpamCop servers can be told to forward all your "clean" mail to another email address. Typically, you would set up a new, secret email address somewhere. Many ISP's give multiple mailboxes for free, for instance. In this case, all email arriving at your spamcop.net address gets forwarded to your secret address at your ISP. You can get mail into the SpamCop system by giving out your spamcop.net address or by forwarding mail as in Method 3.

Method 6: IMAP Access

IMAP access to the SpamCop server is a replacement for POP. IMAP keeps the messages on the SpamCop server, which allows you to read them from multiple IMAP clients. For users who want to read their email from multiple computers, IMAP allows you to see the same messages no matter what computer you're using. Email programs like Outlook Express and Netscape support IMAP access.