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📧 An email filter 🐟 A male fish
milter

milter

9.9
A program that checks email on a mail server and removes spam and viruses
  • noun
  • Jargon
: milter
  • The milter successfully filtered out spam emails.

Examples

  • The company uses a milter to prevent spam and viruses from reaching employees' inboxes.

  • After installing the milter, the number of unwanted emails dropped significantly.

  • A well-configured milter can help protect your mail server from malicious messages.

  • Our new milter has improved email security.

  • The company uses a milter to prevent spam and viruses from reaching employees' inboxes.

  • After installing the milter, the number of unwanted emails dropped significantly.

  • A well-configured milter can help protect your mail server from malicious messages.

Surface Forms

milter singular
milters plural

Morphology

milter = mail + filter (opaque) = mail + filter

The term is a technical portmanteau based on 'mail filter', but the clipped/blended form is not transparently recoverable from the surface string alone.

Etymology

Milter is a modern computer term made by joining mail and filter, so you can think of it as a 'filter for mail'. A milter is a program that checks incoming email and stops spam or viruses before they reach your inbox.