OME-Kids

In this connected modern world, your kids will eventually have their own email accounts. Will they communicate safely and sensibly? Will they be deluged with spam that advertises pills for grownup ills? Billed as "training wheels" for email, OME-Kids aims to let them get started under parental control.

$9.99 per year gets you email accounts for two children. You can add more at any time for $4.99 per year, with the initial charge pro-rated based on the amount of time left in your current subscription.

Your kids shouldn't receive any spam, because their mail goes through the same filtering process offered by OnlyMyEmail Personal. You may note that my review of the full-scale OnlyMyEmail is quite old. I'm presently working on an updated review, but due to the way the service works gathering data on antispam accuracy will take a while. In any case, the service hasn't changed much since my earlier review?it doesn't need to! The most noticeable difference is a price change, from $3 per month before down to $19.95 per year now.

Getting Started
Your first step toward setting up protected email for your kids is to create an OnlyMyEmail account for yourself. You'll use this account to manage and configure the children's accounts. The signup process requires a credit card, but a 30-day free trial is built in; you won't be charged until the trial is over.

Next you'll create the children's accounts. As with any webmail system, each account name must be unique across the system. However, if BillySmith@OME-Kids.com is already taken, you can try the other seven available domains: IBHere.com, OME-Teens.com, OnlyOurEmail.com, ReachMeWeb.com, ReasonRiver.com, TrueMailBox.com, or Zooblix.com.

For each account you can choose three types of protection. If you check Enable Kids Carbon Copy, every message the child sends will be Bcc'ed to you. Checking Enable Lock-Down Mode limits your child's correspondence to pre-approved addresses?mail from new correspondents will be held until you approve the sender. Finally, checking Save Messages for Parental Review gives you the option to review all messages the child receives.

ZillaMail also filters out spam and viruses, but it's always in the equivalent of Lock-Down Mode. ZillaMail, too, includes the option to Bcc parents on all sent messages. It also includes instant messaging with other ZillaMail users. Overall, its appearance and features seem aimed at a younger group than OME-Kids.

Antispam Configuration
Those three checkboxes are all the configuration you really need, and of course you can change them at any time by logging in to your administrative account. You can also set your preferences for filtering out unwanted email, either for all accounts or for each individually.

OnlyMyEmail will always block mail it considers to be undeniably spam. By default, it also blocks email viruses and virus alerts, mail from foreign domains, direct marketing messages, and messages from list-servers. You can disable these secondary categories, for example, to let your children exchange email with relatives in foreign countries. If desired, you can add filtering of newsletters, Yahoo groups, and chain letters.

By default, you'll get a daily report for each filtered email address. You can check this report to be sure no valid mail got marked as spam accidentally. Note, though, that in my earlier testing OnlyMyEmail blocked only a minuscule amount of valid mail. The free Cloudmark DesktopOne Basic 1.2 didn't discard any valid mail at all, and caught almost all of the undeniable spam.

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