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Bad-language filter

Mail carrying the words you do not want to read does not open in front of you.

Details

  • A word list of your own in Account → Privacy, and a default list of common profanities and slurs you can switch on beside it. Both are matched against the subject and the body.
  • A match holds the message behind a warning rather than deleting it, and one click shows it. What someone is allowed to send you and what you have to look at are two different questions.
  • Matching ignores case, spacing, padding and the usual substitutions (f.u.c.k, fuuuck and f#ck all count) and only ever matches whole words, so a list holding the word inside “Scunthorpe” does not silence the town, and one holding “ass” does not silence a message about a class.
  • The warning never repeats the word that triggered it, and does not count them either. A banner that quotes them has shown you the thing you asked not to be shown.
  • It holds the body. A subject line is matched (a message is held for a word in its subject alone), but the subject itself still shows in the list and above the message, because that is how you find the thing you are looking for. If the words you do not want to read turn up in subject lines, blocking the sender is the tool for that.
  • Checked as you read rather than as mail arrives, so adding a word today hides the message that made you add it.