What is spam filtering software and could it solve my spam problem?

What is spam filtering software and could it solve my spam problem?

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Spam filtering software can help to alleviate your spam problems, probably not eliminate them. But spam filtering software uses a variety of techniques to make highly-educated guesses as to what might be a piece of spam versus a piece of mail that you're looking for. So some of the things it might look for are certain keywords: free, sex. Lots of different words like that and combinations of words that the variety of spam have. It might look at certain domains, the way certain domains are set. It might look at how the email is structured, that it's not just to you, it's to many different people. It might look at the body of the email. So it looks at a lot of different factors. And typically, it puts it in a special folder so that you can go and verify whether or not it's spam.