We have many new features now available
for our clients

SMS Facilities

WAP Support

SpamBoxer: Fight SPAM Your Own Way

New Mail Tools

Virus Scanning

WebAddress WebMail Upgrade

CGI Script Wizard

Tech Support Wizard

New Site Statistics Reports

We have a stack of new features for you! We hope you like them!

WebAddress has launched a revolutionary service that integrates your website with your cell phone. As far as we can determine, we are the first web host in the world to offer hosting accounts that include cell phone-enabled email accounts based on your own domain name, as well as our innovative "SMS Alerts" feature that enables you to be notified via SMS when important messages are delivered to any of your POP mailboxes.

All accounts now come with email-to-SMS facilities. You can set up cell phone-enabled email addresses like 12345678@you.com where 12345678 is your full international mobile phone number and you.com is your website address. When people send an email message to that address, you will receive the first 160 characters of the message on your cell phone via SMS (Short Message Service).

Each SMS sent to your phone will cost you one SMS credit. We have allocated three free SMS credits to each website we host, so you can trial the service without paying a cent. If you decide the service is useful then you can buy more SMS credits via our "Buy SMS Credits" page at http://customerhq.WebAddress.com.au >> Admin/Billing >> Buy SMS Credits. Our SMS prices are extremely competitive, and are available on the Buy SMS Credits page.

To set up a cell phone-enabled email address simply visit the Email Management section of the Control Panel and choose: Create Email Address. After setting up your cell phone-enabled email address, we highly recommend that you use SpamBoxer (see below) to protect the address from SPAM messages, since each SMS message sent to your phone will cost you one SMS credit.

Make sure you know when important messages arrive Once you have set up a cell phone-enabled email address, you can scan mail coming in to each of your POP accounts to see if it is important. If it is an important message, then you can choose to have an SMS sent to your cell phone so that you know the message has arrived. For example, you could use SMS Alerts to send you an SMS when messages from boss@somedomain.com arrive, or could use SMS Alerts to send you an SMS when an order arrives at one of your email addresses. With SMS Alerts, you get to decide which messages are important.

Again, each SMS sent to your phone will cost you one SMS credit.

These innovative SMS services integrate your website with your mobile phone. The possibilities are endless.

WAP pages enable you to make your website available to people through their WAP-enabled cell phone. WAP pages are supported on our servers. Unlike web pages, WAP pages are written in WML rather than HTML. To create a WAP version of your site you need to:

• write WML code for each of your WAP decks (page sets)
• name the deck file a .wml extension (e.g. mydeck.wml)
• upload the deck to your site in ASCII transfer mode
• view it via your WAP-enabled mobile phone, or a WAP emulator.

SpamBoxer is our new anti-spam tool which you can use to protect any POP account or cell phone-enabled email address from spam (unsolicited email).

SpamBoxer is easy to use but provides an unprecedented level of sophistication as an anti-spam facility in a web hosting environment. You can customize the way it works. You decide what messages should be treated as spam, and you decide what to do with messages marked as spam - you can either delete them or have them set aside in your "SpamBox" for up to 14 days. By regularly reviewing your SpamBox you can be sure that no legitimate messages are being discarded as spam. This way, you can reduce the amount of spam arriving in your mailbox, while still being certain that no genuine messages are being lost.

You can block spam based on any mixture of the following:

• SPAM recognition software - the actual content of each message is analyzed and the message is assigned a score to determine how likely it is to be spam. You can choose to block messages based on the level of that spam score.
• Blacklists - you can block mail based on any or all of the following anti-spam blacklists: SpamCop, ORDB, Osirusoft, SpamHaus SBL, DNSRBL and the Distributed Server Boycott List (DSBL).
• Custom Filters - block messages based on your own rules. For example, you can choose to block all mail from spammer@somedomain.com.

SpamBoxer is very easy to use and provides you with world-class anti-spam protection.

The Email Management section of the Control Panel now includes some new tools to make managing your POP accounts even easier:

• eReminders - this handy tool allows you to schedule reminders which will be sent to the email addresses that you specify.
• Reset your passwords - you can reset the password on any POP account. If you reset the password on your catch-all POP account, the change will also apply to your FTP/Telnet/SSH/ http://customerhq.WebAddress.com.au login details
• Mailbox Cleanup - enables you to delete messages without having to download them first - a great way to get rid of those unwanted large messages
• Diagnose POP Problems - if you are having trouble downloading your mail then the "Diagnose POP Problems" tool should be your first port of call - it will analyze the login information available and send you an explanation of what is going wrong. In some circumstances it will even automatically fix the problem for you

Our servers are now scanning incoming and outgoing mail for viruses. Our system will:

• Block thousands of known viruses (such as BugBear, Klez etc)
• Block virus-like attachments

Attachments that end in any of the following are dropped:

adp,bat,com,cpl,lnk,pif,reg,scr,shs,wsc,wsf,wsh

Those are the ones that are both dangerous and unlikely to be sent for any valid reason.

Attachments that end in any of the following are NOT being dropped but a warning message will appear in the main message advising the recipient that opening the attachment could be dangerous:

exe,cmd,jse,sct,shb,url

The reason these are not being dropped is that we believe it is likely that the files would be sent for valid reasons.

Regardless of the above rules, an attachment may be dropped if it appears to be dishonestly reporting itself. For example, a .exe file with a content-type of .wav, .jpg, etc would be dropped automatically. These need to be dropped because they can infect a machine without the person explicitly choosing to open them. Also, it is extremely unlikely that this sort of filename/content-type combination would be used for a valid reason.

Finally, while the overwhelming majority of messages passing through our servers are scanned thoroughly for viruses, please note that the following limits apply:

• Messages larger than 2 MB are not scanned - scanning very large attachments is extremely resource intensive so is not appropriate in a shared hosting environment. Please note however, that the vast majority of viruses are spread in files smaller than 2 MB.
• If a message contains 4 or more binary attachments, then only the first three are scanned. Again, this is a necessary limit to prevent overuse of resources, and we anticipate that it will affect very few messages.

WebAddress WebMail has been completely revamped. New features include:

• folders to store your mail
• customizable interface (choose your own look and feel from a set of predefined templates)
• an address book
• custom message signatures
• ability to specify your reply-to address

Our new CGI Script Wizard will install scripts on your site within minutes. Apart from a streamlined installation process, the range of scripts available has been expanded. The scripts now available are:

Calendar of Events

A program to show a calendar of events. Make calendars for months between Jan, 1970 and Dec, 2049 using customizable templates and a stylesheet.

DBMEdit

Add, edit, or delete records from a DBM database, via a Web interface.

eUpload

This script allows for authorized people to upload files directly through their web browser to your server. This script is ideal for administrator's who want to allow users to upload files.

FFA Links Page

Free For All Links is a program to maintain a simple database of web links. Any visitor to the web page can add links to the database.

FormMail

FormMail is a script that allows you to receive the results of an HTML form submission via an email message. This is a drop-in replacement for the FormMail script from Matt's Script Archive. This NMS version includes enhanced security features to prevent abuse from spammers. To use FormMail you will need some basic HTML knowledge. A sample, working form is included for you.

Guestbook

Encourage visitors to your site to leave a message in this guestbook.

Image Counter

Image Counter allows you to have a page hit counter on your web pages using graphical images as the digits.

Mojo Mail

Mojo Mail is a powerful yet easy to use mailing list program. You don't need to remember cryptic commands to send to a special address just to have the program e-mail you back telling you your wrong. You administrate your lists using a control panel you view through your web browser - like Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.

phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is a set of PHP scripts that enable you to manage your MySQL database using your browser (only suitable for accounts with MySQL access).

Show and Sell Banner Rotator

Show And Sell is a free script that allows you to set up and log the display of clickable advertisements on your web site.

Simple Search

A simple script that enables your visitors to search your site.

Text Counter

Text Counter will keep a record of the number of hits to your web page and display that number. It is intended to be used as a Server Side Include program.

WWWBoard

WWWBoard allows you to create and maintain a basic discussion forum on the web. On the forum, people will be able to post and reply to posts.

YaBB

YaBB (Yet Another Bulletin Board) is an open-source, easily-accessible bulletin board for everyone and anything. It is stacked with features, is easy to use, and is one of the web's most popular bulletin board systems.

We have rejigged our User Manual into a more friendly format: the Tech Support Wizard. The Tech Support Wizard is easy to navigate and is intended to lead you directly to the information you require. If the Tech Support Wizard does not answer your question then you will be directed to our Support Request Form which you can use to contact our customer service team.

We have upgraded our site statistics systems and are pleased to announce that we now provide you with more comprehensive statistics which are updated daily. Additionally, site statistics are now generated for parked domains.