The "Spam Blocker" is our upgrade from the old "Inbox Shield Blocklists". The document will explain what has changed, and if you need to do anything.

## What were Blocklists?

When you enabled a Blocklist any email that you received that matched an item on the blocklist would be blocked.

There were multiple blocklists that could be enabled:

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When an item was blocked by a blocklist it would then show in the Screener with the relevant blocklist label:

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Blocklists were quite opaque and difficult to understand, with some customers struggling to see why some emails had been blocked. The connection between Blocklists and the Screener was also confusing, as no other features have that same connection.

This led us to remove the Blocklists feature completely, and replace it with the "Spam Blocker"

## Spam Blocker

The Spam Blocker is simple - it checks new mail and if it thinks that it's spam, then it moves it to your spam folder.

You can read a full explanation of how the Spam Blocker determines what is spam [here](https://docs.leavemealone.com/doc/spam-blocker-rA3D2OTvWD).

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### Similarities with Blocklists

The "Custom Blocklist" and "Unsubscribe Blocklist" are now subsections of the Spam Blocker. So you can still block senders by adding custom emails and filters.

You don't need to update your blocklists, they have been moved over automatically.

You can access these from the top of the [Spam Blocker page](https://app.leavemealone.local/spam-blocker).

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### Differences to Blocklists

When emails are blocked by the Spam Blocker they will be moved to your email client's junk folder.

Items blocked by the Spam Blocker won't show up in the Screener.


:::info
Items blocked by the Spam Blocker will not show up in the Screener like items on Blocklists used to. This includes items on the Custom Blocklist and Unsubscribed emails.

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