A software routine that deletes incoming spam or diverts it to a "junk" mailbox (see spam folder). Also called "spam blockers," spam filters are built into a user's email program. They are also built ...

Networking Services and Information Technologies (NSIT) rolled out a new $170,000 junk e-mail manager in mid-December with hopes of better protection of cMail inboxes from bulk and spam e-mail. “[It] ...

As the arms race between spammers and spam-blockers continues, the automatic spam flag is a crucial yet finicky tool for separating the wheat from the chaff. Nowadays, spam filters come standard on ...

Microsoft Exchange 2000 and 2003 email servers allow the administrator to create and edit junk mail filters. Exchange 2003 utilizes the Intelligent Message Filter to provide the administrator with the ...

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We continue to investigate an issue where Mail.app seemingly suddenly stops filtering junk mail, and subsequently crashes when attempting to flag messages as junk. The problem appears to manifest when ...

Anecdotal evidence from Gmail users—including the author of this story—suggests that something changed with Gmail’s spam filter settings in recent weeks, resulting in the email provider letting ...

Conservatives are split over whether Google email filters are flagging Republican lawmakers’ emails as spam and thereby unfairly censoring them. A recent study found that Google has disproportionately ...

“Are @gmail's spam filters broken? I've had a sudden influx of some crazy #NSFW spam in my inbox! What's going on #Gmail?” - source “It is a strangely comforting thing that I can just search for ...

A new spam filter for Microsoft's Hotmail service is not only bouncing US$198 Florida land deals and instant diplomas from in-boxes, it's also thwarting email sent from subscribers to themselves. One ...