If Gmail’s spam and newsletter filters are letting too much slip through, or if you use a private email service with a bad spam filter, then try this solution: quarantine all email until the sender ...

Spam filters are often a huge source of frustration for small business owners. While filters can prevent a deluge of electronic junk mail from clogging inboxes, they can suddenly stop working, miss ...

Two of the world's biggest e-mail account providers, Yahoo Inc. and America Online, plan to introduce a service that would charge senders a fee to route their e-mail directly to a user's mailbox ...

[Editor’s Note: Denise Pappalardo is off today. In place of her newsletter we present this news story from the Service Provider Networks section of Network World Fusion. Enjoy.] John Knapp, executive ...

A group of e-mail marketers on Tuesday set up an Internet forum for people to air grievances about spam filters--which can swallow legitimate messages along with the targeted commercial come-ons. The ...

Q: Why are spam filters so crappy and why can’t the user put in some rules? For example, e-mail (even spoofed ones) from our company e-mail address to our company e-mail address would be OK. Some ...

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A little over a year ago, Verizon rolled out a spam call filter service within its paid Call Filter upgrade. Today, the company announced that the Verizon spam call filter will soon be available to ...

Netriplex is targeting a free version of its e-mail anti-spam service at small businesses. The service, which pre-filters e-mail before it reaches the customer's gateway, is 98 percent effective at ...

Google says its Gmail spam filters are now smarter than ever. While the service always used machine learning to figure out what was (and wasn’t) unwanted email, it now uses a more sophisticated neural ...

Consumers who used Yahoo Mail e-mail accounts to register for the Federal Trade Commission's new do-not-call service were met with an ironic twist Friday -- Yahoo's spam filter intercepted ...