Email Encryption against Spam: Continue Reading
November 11th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Category: Php & mySql, Tutorials | Tags: email, encryption, gravatar
Lets begin by setting up a scenario. You just woke up and jumped out of bed, you just finished breakfast or you just arrived at work. You plan to start off this wonderful day by reading your emails and getting them out of the way. You launch your mail client and wait for the connection, your "new mail" notification pops up, it beings downloading the new messages (you get a bit of joy out of this), you then click the inbox icon which is associated with the current amount of mail in it (you have alot and are quite pleased), but then... Once you are in your inbox, you realize something horrible, your inbox is full of spam! Literally 95% of your emails you were planning on reading are spam. It aggravates you, you wonder how this happened and why you get so much irritating spam! Well in this tutorial, we will teach you the basics of how to encrypt your email to stop spam bots in their tracks and safe ways to stop bots from fetching your email address.
