Blocking adult content

Adult and explicit emails are the worst kind of junk to find in your inbox. They aren't much better sitting in your spam folder, waiting for you to scroll past them. The Spam Blocker can catch them for you and keep them out of sight, including the ones your email provider has already put in your junk folder.

Turning on adult content blocking

1. Open the Spam Blocker page from the sidebar.
2. Make sure the Spam Blocker is switched on with the toggle at the top of the page.
3. Scroll down to Options.
4. Switch on Block adult content.

From then on, any adult or explicit email that arrives is blocked the same way as the rest of your spam. We move it to your Spam Blocker folder (_lma-shield/spam unless you've changed it).

Clearing adult content out of your spam folder

Your email provider probably already catches some of this mail and files it in your junk folder. That keeps it out of your inbox, but you still see it every time you open the folder to look for something.

When Block adult content is on, a second option appears underneath it:

1. Switch on Also clear adult content out of my spam folder.

We'll then check your spam folders and move anything adult or explicit to Trash. That covers both:

• your email provider's own spam or junk folder, and
• the Spam Blocker's folder, where we put the spam we block.

The first check looks at everything already in those folders. After that, we keep checking for new mail that lands there. Only adult or explicit emails are moved, so everything else in your spam folder stays where it is.

How we spot adult content

We look at who an email is from and its subject line. We check for explicit words, including the misspellings and symbol tricks spammers use to get past filters (like s.e.x or s3x). If that doesn't settle it, our AI takes a look and decides whether the email is adult content.

The strictness setting on the Spam Blocker page doesn't change this. Adult content is checked separately.

Seeing what we've blocked

Everything we move shows up on your History page. Emails caught by this setting are labelled adult, and the details say the email was flagged as adult or explicit content.

If we get it wrong

No filter is perfect, and a real email could occasionally get caught. You can't undo this one from Leave Me Alone, but you can get the email back from your mail client:

1. Check your History page to find the email. Look for the adult label.
2. Open your mail client and find the email:
   • blocked from your inbox: it'll be in your Spam Blocker folder (_lma-shield/spam unless you've changed it)
   • cleared out of your spam folder: it'll be in Trash
3. Move it back to your inbox.

If you notice the same kind of email getting caught again and again, get in touch and we'll take a look.

Turning it off

Switch off Block adult content on the Spam Blocker page. This also switches off clearing your spam folder. Anything we've already moved stays where it is, so you'll need to move it back yourself in your mail client.