The Bottom Line
ZoEmail is no longer available.
Pros
- ZoEmail gives you an almost perfectly spam-free email account
- Comes with a rich and powerful web-based email interface plus POP access
- ZoEmail is easy to use and has a very low risk of false positives
Cons
- Managing ZoEmail addresses and keys can require some discipline
- ZoEmail could come with more online mailbox space
- Access and support problems diminish ZoEmail's virtues
Description
- ZoEmail provides spam-free email accounts with a web-based interface and 24MB/100MB storage.
- ZoEmail addresses contain of three parts: user name, key and domain.
- Only mail sent to a valid key is allowed through to your ZoEmail Inbox.
- As you send mail to somebody from ZoEmail, a key is automatically created for the recipient.
- You can also create keys manually for use on the web or to give out to strangers.
- Should a ZoEmail key ever fall in the hands of spammers, you can revoke it easily.
- In addition to keeping spam out, ZoEmail also screens all mail for viruses.
- It's possible to request a key for any ZoEmail user if you prove you're no robot.
- You can access your ZoEmail account with any POP or IMAP email client, too.
Guide Review - ZoEmail - Email Service
No, really spam-free: no filters to train, no lists to maintain and no "Junk" folder to watch.
Improving on the idea of disposable email addresses, ZoEmail provides email accounts with a near-perfect spam record. This works because every message to your ZoEmail account must be sent to an address that contains a special key.
Messages to addresses with no or an unknown key are dropped. Typically, you create a key — and thus a special email address — for everybody you want to communicate with.
Now, the best thing about ZoEmail is that this usually happens automatically. Whenever you mail somebody from ZoEmail for the first time, a random address will be in the From: line. The recipient can save this address to her address book and communicate with you without the threat of spam filters (or ZoEmail) ever catching the message.
But what about people you do not know yet, which email address should you give to strangers or list on your web site? For all these occasions, ZoEmail lets you create "temporary" keys. Mail sent to such a key gets through, but if you reply, the sender gets her personal key.
Should you ever receive spam at such a public-key address, you can easily dispose the key in spammer's hands and create a new one. Still, ZoEmail does require some discipline and management if you want to use it for more than known friends.
It's great that ZoEmail is accessible via IMAP and POP in addition to the web, but more online storage would not hurt. Improved stability and customer service might make more happy customers, too.
