E-mail Verification (BoxTrapper)

Overview

BoxTrapper protects your Inbox from spam by forcing all people not on your white list to reply to a verification email before they can send mail to you. This is an effective way to make sure only people you "approve" can send you email. Spammers will not be able to get mail to your Inbox without prior approval from you as the white list manager.

As the owner of your mailbox, you are responsible for enabling/disabling BoxTrapper and managing your White/Black Lists as well as your Queue. 

When you logon to the webmail link at gotvi.net, you will be directed to a page where you can select the BoxTrapper icon to manage your BoxTrapper settings and Queue. 

What follows are the areas you should be most interested in managing.

 Use your normal email address for the username and current mail password.

Setting Up Boxtrapper Email Verification 

Steps

1. When the page loads you will see the following screen.
   
2. Your goal is to configure BoxTrapper so select that icon first. You should then see a screen that looks like this.
   
3. Status - There are two status options available (DISABLED and ENABLED). One of these options will be shown depending on the current status of the associated email account.
   • If you wish to activate BoxTrapper then click on the Enable button to enable verification all those sending email to you to verify their emails addresses as legitimate address and not Spammers.

    

4. BoxTrapper Settings - areas in GREEN are the most important areas for you to pay attention to below.
• Configure Settings - You should NOT have to modify any settings in this section.
• Edit Confirmation Messages - Allows you to change the different messages that users will receive when sending messages to an account with the BoxTrapper enabled. You should NOT have to modify any settings in this section. (Directions for changes are listed below under "Edit Confirmation Messages)
• Edit White/Black/Ignore Lists - Allows you to permit, deny, and ignore email messages from certain accounts. This is the second most useful area where you will spend your time.
• Forward List - You should NOT have to modify any settings in this section.
• Review Log - This is NOT very useful so don't worry about it.
• Review Queue - Allows you to set the email addresses that are associated with the BoxTrapper software. You can also modify how long logs and queue messages are kept. This is the most useful area where you will spend most of your time.

You will see below more specific instructions on how to manage these areas by area of importance being listed first.

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Review Queue

Allows you to see and select the email addresses that the BoxTrapper software is holding. You should review this list periodically to ensure that you are not missing messages that you feel you should be getting.

1. You can either "Delete" or "Whitelist & Deliver" the email(s) found in this list. 
   1. Select what you want to do and click on the Submit button.
2. Addresses where you select the check box and choose "Whitelist & Deliver" will be added to your white list as well as delivered to your InBox.
3. There is no need to do anything to messages you wish not to receive as they will be automatically discarded by the BoxTrapper software.

Edit White/Black/Ignore Lists

Allows you to permit, deny, and ignore email messages from certain accounts. There are three types of lists available in the BoxTrapper software. Each list should contain one entry per line. Entries should be in the format below. For example:
john@domain.com would be john\@domain\.com and if you wanted to accept all addresses at *.domain.com then you would record .+\@domain\.com

The three lists include:

• White List - The white list is a list of content that will be allowed into your inbox with a confirmation.
• Ignore List - The ignore list is a list of users or subjects to prevent from emailing you.
• Black List - The black list is a list of content to prevent emailing you. The sender of black listed content will also receive a warning message of your choice.

To edit any list, simply click on one of the lists mentioned above. Once you have modified a list based on your specific needs, click on the Save button.

~~~No Need to edit these remaining items~~~

Edit Confirmation Messages

Allows you to change the different messages that users will receive when sending messages to an account with the BoxTrapper enabled. There are three types of messages that are used with the BoxTrapper software:

• verify - This confirmation message is the first email to be sent to someone when they first send you an email. In the "To" line 
• You must leave the "verify#%msgid%" and %email%" variables exactly as they appear in the "Subject" line in order for this confirmation message to work properly. 
• Click on the Save button after you have modified the "verify" confirmation email.
• blacklist - If you deny an email address verification, the sender will receive the blacklist message stating that you are not accepting emails from the sender's email address. You can modify the message to your specific needs. You MUST leave
• To: %email%
  Subject: Re: %subject%  exactly as is.
• Click on the Save button after you have modified the "blacklist" confirmation email.
• returnverify - This confirmation message sends an email to the sender's email address stating that you have approved their email address for sending email to your email account. You can modify the message to your specific needs.  You MUST leave
•  To: %email%
  Subject: Re: %subject%  exactly as is.
• Click on the Save button after you have modified the "returnverify" confirmation email.

To edit any of the confirmation messages, click on the Edit button next to the confirmation type. If you have modified any of the confirmation messages and would like to restore the message to its default message, click on the Reset to default button.

You can edit any of the confirmation messages to fit your own personal preferences. When you have finished modifying your confirmation messages, click on the Go Back link. When the page loads, click on the Go Back link one more time. Then move on to the next section below, "Edit Forward/White/Black/Ignore Lists."

Forward List

The forward list is a list of email address where white listed and verified mail should be sent to in addition to the address BoxTrapper is protecting. You should NOT have to modify any settings in this section.

Review Log

The review log provides an overview of all messages sent to your email accounts for each day. 

If there are any logs available for a particular day, they will be listed on the page. 

To navigate to a previous day, click on the "<< DATE" link on the left side of the page. 

To navigate to a day beyond the current day shown, click on the "DATE >>" link on the right side of the page. This is NOT very useful so don't worry about it.