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Revision as of 18:40, 9 January 2013
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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Online Services |
Founded | 1995 |
Headquarters | , U.S. |
Key people | Meng Weng Wong, Founder |
Products | pobox.com, listbox.com |
Website | www.pobox.com |
Pobox.com is a service of IC Group, Inc. Pobox.com is sometimes used to refer to both the service and its parent company. The company and service were founded in 1995 by Meng Weng Wong and Reuven Bell while they were students at the University of Pennsylvania. The service began as an email aliasing and forwarding solution but has since expanded its offerings.
It is known in the internet community for having proposed the RFC for SPF, a proposal for fixing SMTP. As an e-mail service provider, primarily of mail forwarding services, Pobox.com has a vested interest in reform. The company manages corporate e-mail and offers spam filtering using RBLs and Cloudmark Authority.
Services offered
- Email Forwarding allows users to forward their pobox email to one or more email addresses.
- Spam Protection filters junk mail from users email. The spam filters are customizable.
- Email Filters allow customers to delete messages, send messages to other email address and to their cellphones and pagers, send push notifications, and filter to folders.
- URL Redirection allows users to redirect their pobox.com URL to other web pages.
- Webmail allows users to access their email online.
- Mailstore Archive allows users to archive all incoming mail to a separate, dated archive.
- Personal Domains allows users to use the above features at their own domain.
Other IC Group services
- Listbox.com provides mailing list solutions for companies and individuals.
- Fauxbox.com provided domain name redirection. It was merged with Pobox.com, and is no longer active as a separate service.
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