E-Proxy 2000 is an electronic mail software tool to empower the computer desktop user.  Block, filter and destroy spam and control messaging content with E-Proxy 2000.  This Internet product is great for anyone who uses electronic mail and is tired of being deluged by spam.  Professional and personal computer users need a tool for their desktop that fights back against junk mail.  Take an undiscovered journey into your e-mail traffic for a new level of interaction and control with E-Proxy 2000.  Specially designed for Windows 2000 Professional and XP, E-Proxy works with all POP mail clients, including Eudora, Outlook 2000, Outlook XP and Outlook Express, and runs on any hardware running a Windows 2000 or XP computer operating system.

E-Proxy 2000 is a true electronic mail proxy that functions between your mail clients, such as Microsoft Outlook, and your arriving mail.  Your ordinary Outlook mailbox continues to run as it always has, although now E-Proxy sees everything first.  With this power, E-Proxy can trap mail and filter it off to different categories.  With such a tool at your desktop fingertips you can take back control over your e-mail.  We are all becoming more aware of the dangers of electronic mail, including receiving spam and junk mail, such as mail of a pornograhic nature or with questionable content of some sort. 

E-Proxy 2000 deploys a sophisticated technology for scanning and analyzing mail, as well as for blocking or filtering it, and, in some cases, even returning it.  You can create criteria or categories surrounding a chosen set of words, or combination of words for detection by E-Proxy. This could include spammers' e-mail addresses, URLs, material in the content of the message, such as HTML tags, or a set of words or letter patterns, or it could be items in the header of the message used for trapping subjects or "from" fields. Whether you are home user or professional, E-Proxy can help you.

E-Proxy 2000 - An Electronic Mail Proxy

For a moment, let's look at what a proxy does. In an enterprise that uses the Internet, a proxy server is a location that acts as an intermediary between an network computer user and the Internet.  Proxies play vital roles in the enterprise and can ensure security, administrative control and caching services.  A proxy server is associated with a gateway server that separates the enterprise network from the outside network and a firewall server that protects the enterprise network from outside intrusion.

Specifically, a web proxy server receives a request for an Internet service (such as a Web page request) from a user.  If it passes filtering requirements, the proxy server, assuming it is also a cache server, looks in its local cache of previously downloaded Web pages.  If it finds the page, it returns it to the user without needing to forward the request to the Internet.  If the page is not in the cache, the proxy server, acting as a client on behalf of the user, uses one of its own IP addresses to request the page from the server out on the Internet.  When the page is returned, the proxy server relates it to the original request and forwards it on to the user.

To the user, the proxy server is invisible; all Internet requests and returned responses appear to be directly with the addressed Internet server. (The proxy is not quite invisible; its IP address has to be specified as a configuration option to the browser or other protocol program.)

An electronic mail proxy follows this line of technology and is similar in theory to a web proxy but is used for scanning, analyzing and controlling electronic mail.  With an e-mail proxy, you should be able to fire events such as scanning, filtering, blocking and alerting based on pre-determined search criteria.  Criteria categories surround a chosen set of keywords, or combination of words, for any purpose that you may have in mind.  Whether you are a personal computer user trying to control objectionable material and spam, or a professional, such as a researcher, a teacher, an analyst, or a marketeer, and in the business of controlling, monitoring and examing information; or just desire more visibility over the mail flowing into your mailbox, you will love E-Proxy.  In many professions, if you have to deal with data, gathering statistics, finding trends, analyzing information, or reporting data, or are just a word lover, then you will love the power of E-Proxy 2000.  Basically, an e-mail proxy, as an e-mail message viewer and scanner, gives you the ability to search, filter and block based on a pre-selected set of words and report the results to yourself. You can view based on criteria of information that you organize and create for yourself that has meaning for you in your personal life or profession.

E-Proxy 2000 - Benefits

Imagine having a tool whose uses are as many as you can think of. E-Proxy is such a tool. Here are just a few examples of benefits spanning more than one industry and profession.

Security -- Block spam mail coming in to your InBox with a certain subject, sender or content. Screen out all mail with URLs or HTML tags, or other "indicators" of spam.
Filter -- Bounce-back undeliverables messages to spammers, such as "user unknown," to pretend to them you no longer exist.  They will remove you, as a result, from their mailing lists.
Exclude -- Exclude personal contacts (import them directly from Outlook) and exempt them from the filtering process.  Also exclude based on certain words or a phrase that appears in the subject of a message.
Alert -- Receive alerts to another e-mail address when certains adresses or content keywords are detected in your mail, such as a certain sender or subject.
Reporting -- Capture information from e-mail messages, like the name of every sender who sends you mail.
Analyzing -- You are interested in trapping certains strings or search words in your mail and want to capture the e-mail addresses and identify the sender of such messages.
Viewing -- View messages directly without necessarily disturbing those messages in a way that completely exposes the MIME header and the details of your Internet connection.
Extracting -- You are intent about keeping out junk mail but under some circumstances you want mail to get through of certain subjects or senders that are of interest to you.  Again, E-Proxy allows you to exclude items from the screening process.
Listing -- You enjoy seeing all the URL links that appear in your e-mail messages to get an idea of what kind of links are appearing in your messages.
Identify -- You wan to indentify all the names of people who send you mail with a certain word or subject in it.
Searching -- You are searching for certain current topics.
Blocking -- You want to block out content of a certain nature that contains specific keywords or material.   Block .exe files (or other extensions).

E-Proxy 2000 - Product Description

Because Windows 2000 possesses technology that Windows 95 and Windows 98 does not, a product like E-Proxy 2000 for Windows 2000 and Windows XP becomes available for the first time. Anyone using a POP mail client, like Microsoft Outlook, can use E-Asisst 2000 because the product functions completely outside of and independent of the mail client, such as Outlook. All that is required is a mail server, which you already have or you would not be receiving mail. When you setup and run E-Proxy you can view and search electronic mail in a way as new as Windows 2000 or XP, itself. When you scan your e-mail with E-Proxy, you do so without effecting the mail traffic at all.  Mail flow is left completely undisturbed and uninterrupted by E-Proxy.  Outlook, or your mail client, and E-Proxy run side by side together.

E-Proxy turns the emphasis from the server and server based products to the desktop. Traditionally, under the desktop environment dominated by Windows 95 and 98, the technology has not been sufficient to accommodate the stringent requirements of e-mail surveillance and intervention products. These functions are difficult to attain without a full-blown preemptive, multi-tasking operating system like Windows NT or a UNIX server.  With the arrival of Windows 2000, we can deploy many server based products on the desktop and reap the benefits.

E-Proxy deploys server technology for the benefit of the desktop user.  The desktop dictates a different set of needs than the server, since the individual consumer's needs can vary greatly from the needs of an organization.  For example, the consumer may be interested in scanning and surveying mail for information gathering and alerting purposes, and not necesary for filtering mail and detection.  In addition, since the consumer is not so worried about personal content liability (i.e., being sued by oneself), the desktop user might desire more information and researching tools and be less interested in the "big brother" approach of server based products for deploying content scanning and liability prevention for the benefit of employers.

E-Proxy is a scanning surveillance tool for e-mail that uses a unique technology to impose next-to-no load on your desktop. Here are some other important points about E-Proxy 2000:

• You can block mail content from arriving into your InBox
• E-Proxy automatically remembers the sender of blocked mail and will block all mail from that sender in the future.
• You can return back to sender mail, such as spam, virus mail or junk mail.
• You can provide filtering services for virus detection with products that scan your mail and still use a tool like E-Proxy that specifically targets monitoring and searching.
• A good electronic mail proxy supports all popular client e-mail packages, such as Eudora and Netscape Mail, and work on both POP ports.  Since browser mail or "web mail" runs over HTTP, this kind of mail is exempts from scanning and surveillance over traditional mail ports.  
• HTTP mail, like HotMail and AOLmail that use a web site or a web site delivery mechanism like Outlook Express are suspect to weak security and limited functionality (for example, you cannot auto-forward all your mail from your Hotmail account to another account).  To properly secure your messaging you need to use a POP3 service and a mail client such as Outlook.  With these kinds of mail services you can deploy a proxy program, such as E-Proxy, for the final piece of security.  

E-Proxy 2000 - Technical Requirements

• Any desktop computer running Windows 2000 Professional or XP or NT (E-Proxy can not run on Windows 9x operating systems, which do not possess the necessary technology).
• Any mail client such as Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Express that uses a POP3 mail server for retrieving mail via the POP protocol.
• The host name or IP address of your mail server.  While E-Proxy will run on NT servers and Windows 2000 servers, the product is mainly aimed at desktop users providing control for the individual rather than the organization.  A separate, corporate E-Proxy tool is aimed at the organization.

E-Proxy 2000 - How E-Proxy Fares Against The Competition

Read This!  E-Proxy does not compare to other spam filtering products, such as McAfee's SpamKiller.  E-Proxy is a true proxy, while these other products are not.  E-Proxy works on your mail as it passes by. If you take nothing else away from this reading, know, at the minimum, that E-Proxy is truly unique.  We will not spam you either, to sell a "spam killer" like other vendors do.  So you can feel relieved about that.   

• E-Proxy prevents you from having to maintain two areas when it comes to managing your mail.
• You manage the criteria by which you filter rather than having it managed for you.
• Extensive "exclusion" features allow you to keep friends and contacts from being filtered as well as certain words in the subject that you want to use to keep a message from being filtered.