emailKid-safe email
Email that's cleaned before anyone reads it.
Every email that reaches an email59 mailbox goes through the same filter on its way in. Bad language is taken out, text that isn't in English is taken out, and attachments wait until they've been checked. What you open is the clean copy.
Nothing to turn on: it works on every email59 mailbox.
The four rules
1. Bad language is removed
Swear words, sexual words and explicit wording are replaced with [removed], in the subject and the body. Spelled with numbers or symbols (sh1t, f*ck) or with spaces between the letters, they still go. Sexual emoji go too.
2. Only English stays
A sentence in another language, or in another alphabet, becomes [removed: not English]. Names, numbers, addresses and links stay.
3. Attachments are checked first
A file arrives a little after its email: until it has been checked it shows "being checked" and can't be opened. A clean file is then released. A file that can't be read (password-protected, a zip, a program, too big) or isn't clean is deleted.
4. A note says what went
When anything was taken out, a short line at the top of the email says how much, and every deleted file is named at the end: "Removed: report.zip (could not be read)".
What it looks like
An email that arrived with two swear words and a French paragraph opens like this:
The original is not kept: the cleaned copy is the only one in your mailbox.
Accounts you add are cleaned the same way
If you add another mailbox to email59 (an IMAP or POP account, in the email59 app), mail from that account is read, filtered and, where needed, deleted by email59's AI, the same as email59 mail. Don't add an account you don't want processed.
Good to know
- The filter reads words, not meaning. It can take out a name that looks like a swear word, or a short quote in another language inside an English sentence.
- Mail that was already in a mailbox before the filter started keeps its old text.
- Files are read by email59's checker: text files by the word filter, pictures, PDFs and documents by an AI model. Reading mail and files this way is part of the service (see the terms and privacy policy).