POP3 Mailbox

Filtered Email Right to Your PC

POP3 is the classic email service. It's ideal for individuals and small businesses where a single PC (or Mac!) is used for reading and sending email. Your mail is held on our server until you retrieve it, and then it is automatically deleted from our server.

How it works

You decide how many mailboxes you want and what addresses they should have. The address(es) can either be in our @level7.net.au domain, or you can have them in your own domain.

As each message arrives on our server it is scanned for viruses and spam, and if found to be "clean" it is placed in your mailbox. You then use your preferred email client to log into our server to retrieve your mail. Each message is deleted from our mailserver once your client has downloaded it.

Please note that we don't retain your mail indefinitely, even if you haven't accessed it in a while.

Unread mail (new mail which you haven't attempted to access) will be deleted by us after three months.
Read mail (that we know has been downloaded to your mail client at some stage) will be deleted by us after one week.

If you need your mail to be retained on our server, please use our IMAP Mailbox service.

What happens to viruses?

When we find a virus-infected mail message we will replace the infected part by a short piece of text like this one:

File: openme.doc
has been removed from this email message because it was found to
contain a copy of the 'Mal/FakeVirPk-A' computer virus.

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Virus scanning by Sophos Anti-Virus. Contact VSM Software Services P/L
for more information.                           http://www.vsm.com.au/
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The modified message is then either delivered, or put into the spam quarantine, or simply discarded.

What happens to spam?

If the PreciseMail Anti-Spam software determines that a message is in fact spam it stores it in a "quarantine" area. Up to 3 times a day, PreciseMail sends all users a mail message to notify them of spam which has been quarantined since the last notification message. Your users can then retrieve any message they think has been incorrectly quarantined, or simply ignore them.