Overview Gmail filters emails using a trust-based scoring system that evaluates sender authentication, content patterns, and ...

Overview With well-defined rules, you can sort out repeat offenders (junk mail) and zip them directly to the trash folder, so ...

I've been using Mail's junk filter for a while, but just recently it seems to have gone haywire. It was working quite well, but recently it's become quite poor at guess spam (even if I recieved the ...

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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 ...

We all get piles of junk e-mail every week and no matter what we do, it just seems to always get through our junk filters. We setup rules, black lists and white lists in hopes of creating a more ...

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 ...

Spokeo reports that getting a second phone number can help filter spam and maintain privacy, but it may come with practical downsides.

There's been a recent surge in a method to evade spam filters: disguising text by using the venerable ASCII art method. But so far, spammers are bungling the attempt. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Critics of aggressive spam filtering have long argued that losing or seriously delaying even one piece of important business e-mail – the dreaded false positive – is an unacceptable price for getting ...

After wading through Apple's support forums, it's clear that Mail.app's junk mail filtering in Panther is, at best, inconsistent for many users. My problem is not the filters; Mail.app appears to mark ...