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Protect Your Inbox With The Email Screener Tool

Take control with Clean Email's Screener feature to filter out unknown senders before they clutter your inbox. It holds emails from unknown senders, letting you approve trusted contacts or block unwanted ones forever.

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Approve Who Gets In And Who Doesn't

The Screener tool in Clean Email intercepts messages from new senders and safely holds them in quarantine for your review (nothing is lost). Unlike traditional spam filters and their mysterious algorithms, you decide who gets through and who doesn't. No more inbox clutter, no complicated rules. Just simple, powerful control that saves you time.

Enable Screener in Just Three Clicks

Getting started with the email Screener feature couldn't be simpler:

Navigate to the Screener section in your Clean Email dashboard.
Сlick the Enable Screener button.
You'll see a quick confirmation screen explaining that all new senders will now be held for your review. Confirm that you understand how Screener works and click Continue.
Click Enable Screener again to save the selected settings.

Choose What Gets Screened

Clean Email lets you choose which types of messages to quarantine:

Messages from mailing lists: Promo emails you never signed up for.
Messages sent automatically: System notifications and confirmations.
Messages from people: Real humans emailing you for the first time.

Simply check or uncheck each option based on your preferences to stop junk mail without missing anything important.

Review New Senders at Your Convenience

When new senders try to reach you, their messages wait safely in your screening queue. You'll see a clear list showing:

Who's trying to contact you (sender name and email address)
How many messages they have sent
When they tried to reach you (open preview to see)

Approve or Block Senders After Review

For each sender, you can take immediate action with one click. You can allow them to your inbox, or block them permanently.

Alternatively, you can choose custom delivery options, such as sending messages to specific folders.

Pre-Approve Important Contacts

The mail Screener feature lets you pre-approve specific email addresses, domains, or keywords — just like creating a whitelist of senders who can bypass the screening process.

Receive Regular Screener Summaries

Clean Email lets you enable a regular email digest of new screened senders awaiting review, and optionally turn on push notifications to stay more connected.

How Screener Saves the Day

Regardless of whether you rely on your inbox mainly for work or personal use, Clean Email's Screener can help you overcome common email challenges.

When a new client reaches out for the first time

Imagine you're a freelancer and a potential client finds your portfolio online. They send their first email, and without Screener, this message might get buried in your inbox under promotional emails. But with Screener enabled, it will then safely await your review and won't go unnoticed.

Unintentional subscriptions after online purchases

You buy one thing online, and suddenly that company's "partners" start flooding your inbox. Fortunately, Screener can catch all unintentional subscription messages before they clutter your inbox.

Sales pitches that don't waste your time

If your mail address has ended up on a sales list, and you're getting cold pitches daily, then your Outlook/Yahoo/Gmail spam filters might not be able to catch all of them. But with Screener, these first-time sales emails always get held for review, so you can quickly scan the queue, and block the entire batch in seconds.

Always-On Inbox Protection

No matter where your emails live or how you access them, Clean Email provides continuous inbox protection.

Supports All Major Email Providers

Clean Email seamlessly integrates with Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, AOL, iCloud, and any IMAP-compatible email service. As a trusted provider certified by Google, we undergo annual security audits to confirm that your data is fully protected.

Works With Your Favorite Email App

Since Clean Email connects directly to your email account, you can continue using Apple Mail, Thunderbird, or any email client you love. We handle the filtering and organizing behind the scenes.