
17. Antispam
Spam is a term used to describe unsolicited e-mail. Spam is a growing problem,
both for individuals and for organizations. It's not pretty, you wouldn't want your
kids to see it, it can get you fired (for wasting too much time or from receiving porn
in your office mail) and you can't stop people from sending it. The next best thing
to that is, obviously, to stop receiving it. Unfortunately, Spam comes in a wide range
of shapes and sizes, and there's a lot of it.
Bitdefender Antispam employs remarkable technological innovations and industry
standard antispam filters to weed out spam before it reaches the user's Inbox. For
more information, please refer to “Antispam insights” (p. 93).
The Bitdefender Antispam protection is available only for e-mail clients configured
to receive e-mail messages via the POP3 protocol. POP3 is one of the most widely
used protocols for downloading e-mail messages from a mail server.
Note
Bitdefender does not provide antispam protection for e-mail accounts that you access
through a web-based e-mail service.
The spam messages detected by Bitdefender are marked with the [spam] prefix
in the subject line. Bitdefender automatically moves spam messages to a specific
folder, as follows:
● In Microsoft Outlook, spam messages are moved to a Spam folder, located in the
Deleted Items folder. The Spam folder is created during the installation of
Bitdefender.
● In Outlook Express and Windows Mail, spam messages are moved directly to
Deleted Items.
● In Mozilla Thunderbird, spam messages are moved to a Spam folder, located in
the Trash folder. The Spam folder is created during the installation of Bitdefender.
If you use other mail clients, you must create a rule to move the e-mail messages
marked as [spam] by Bitdefender to a custom quarantine folder.
17.1. Antispam insights
17.1.1. Antispam filters
The Bitdefender Antispam Engine incorporates cloud protection and other several
different filters that ensure your Inbox to be SPAM-free, like Friends list, Spammers
list and Charset filter.
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