spam filter
Inbox protection software
A spam filter is software that automatically identifies and separates unwanted email—advertisements, scams, phishing attempts—from legitimate messages.
Most email services include built-in spam filters that route suspicious messages to a junk folder.
The term extends to similar screening mechanisms on other platforms: The forum's spam filter caught the bot posts.
- junkWorthless discarded items
- inboxMessage receiving folder
- inbox zeroNo pending messages
- emailDigital written communication
- blockSolid mass, or impede
blacklist · whitelist · quarantine · phishing · Nigerian prince · unsolicited · bulk · bulk sender · delete · flagged · suspicious · false positive · algorithm · subject line · sender · domain · unsubscribe · canned
- Data Securitydata protection, encryption key, data security, password, passwords
- email filteringjunk folder, whitelist, blacklist, quarantine, blocked list
- security softwareantivirus, antimalware, firewall, VPN, malware scanner
- emailinbox, from, send, to, outbox
- privacyprivacy, private, seclusion, confidentiality, solitude
- smart techAI, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, neural networks