123 Internet Designs Ltd offers advanced spam filtering, to protect you from unwanted email.

How do the spam filters work?

Spam email is usually quite easy to tell apart from legitimate email that you want to receive. Our spam filters scan each message to check for words, phrases and technical details that are usually found in spam.

The spam filter gives each email a score, depending on how many spam-like features it finds. Any email that scores too highly will be filtered.

When you set the sensitivity of your spam filter, you are choosing the lowest spam score that an email can have before it is filtered. For example, if you set filter level to 5 and an email scores 6, it will be filtered. If an email scored 4, you would receive it as normal.

Note: On rare occassions, spam filtering can prevent legitimate email from reaching you. You should experiment with your spam filtering level and consider adding regular correspondents to your whitelist.

Choosing not to filter email from people you knowYou can make sure that email from your colleagues and friends reaches you by adding them to your spam whitelist.
Email received from domain names, or individual email addresses, on your whitelist will not pass through our spam filters.

Blocking all email from a domain name or email address.

You can also choose to automatically filter all email from some domain names or email addresses. Your spam blacklist can be useful if you receive problem email from certain people but should be used sparingly as it will delete any email from those domains and email addresses.