Advanced mailbox

Advanced mailboxes combine every feature you need for professional email:

Roaming SMTP (Outgoing Mail Server)

Roaming SMTP enables you to send mail using email software on your computer, however you're accessing the internet. With many other providers, you need to use your ISP's outgoing mail server to send email, but with Fasthosts you're not tied to your own broadband connection. For example, if you use email software on a laptop, you'll be able to send emails using different broadband connections when you're on the move, without having to change your settings.

Virus scanning

Using respected, industry-leading virus scanning software, our mail servers prevent harmful email from reaching your computer. Accurate interception is ensured by regular, automatic updates of both the scanning engine and the virus definition file.

Viruses are intercepted in real-time, following heuristic scanning of all inbound and outbound email, to identify and remove suspect attachments and malformed messages. Even archived files are searched, ensuring your email is trustworthy.

Spam filtering

Multi-level, Bayesian spam filtering traps unwanted, unsolicited emails. Each email is checked against a set of criteria and depending on your chosen filter strength, is determined to be spam or legitimate email. You choose whether the filter adds "SPAM" to the front of suspect emails' subject lines, or deletes the email entirely.

Please note: Advanced mailboxes have a message count limit of 5000.