MailFrontier Desktop begins blocking spam and phishing email as soon as it is installed.  Yet, some customers want to be more aggressive in keeping spam out of their inbox.  The “Configuration Preferences” panel in MailFrontier Desktop let’s you choose how aggressive or passive you wish to be.

Collaborative Filter
The collaborative filter utilizes world-wide input from the MailFrontier SMART Network to help fight spam.  This network is especially critical when a new spam attack starts.  Setting the collaborative filter to “Block More” makes MailFrontier Desktop more sensitive to detecting such new attacks.  Using the “Block Less” setting decreases the responsiveness to such external input.

Message Filters
Here you can set the aggressiveness of blocking messages based on the content of the message.  The “Aggressiveness” slider sets the aggressiveness of evaluating the content of all email.  In addition, for the five content types listed (Sexual Content, Offensive Language, etc.) you can enhance the default capability by moving the specific slider.  For example, you may want to receive email from on-line casinos, so you would set the Gambling slider to “Block Less”, yet you want to receive no email from pornographic sites so you would move the “Sexual Content” slider to “Block More”.

Foreign Language Filters
The foreign language filter allows you to block from your inbox all of the email you might receive in a specific language, for example Russian, Chinese, or Cyrillic.