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

Meng Weng Wong

Meng Weng Wong is a serial entrepreneur. In 1994 he founded pobox.com, an email services company. In 2003 he led the group that designed the Sender Policy Framework standard which was later embraced and extended by Microsoft...

 and Reuven Bell while they were students at the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...

. 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

Request for Comments

In computer network engineering, a Request for Comments is a memorandum published by the Internet Engineering Task Force describing methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to the working of the Internet and Internet-connected systems.Through the Internet Society, engineers and...

 for SPF

Sender Policy Framework

Sender Policy Framework is an email validation system designed to prevent email spam by detecting email spoofing, a common vulnerability, by verifying sender IP addresses. SPF allows administrators to specify which hosts are allowed to send mail from a given domain by creating a specific 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

Cloudmark

Cloudmark, Inc is a privately held company, San Francisco-based, providing protection against spam, viruses, phishing, and similar threats that affect email....

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Services offered

• Email Forwarding allows users to forward their pobox.com email to one or more email addresses.
• Spam Protection filters junk mail from users email. The spam filters are customizable.
• Email Filters allow users to delete messages, send message to other email address and to their cellphones and pagers.
• URL Redirection allows users to redirect their pobox.com URL to other web pages.
• Webmail allows users to access their email online.
• Personal Domains allow 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 names redirection. It is no longer active.