All incoming messages go through the Vade Retro filter and an automatic tight surveillance of the e-mails placed into your messaging’s folders is carried out. Thanks to the Anti-Ads filter, all the commercial e-mails are sort in a specific folder.

A simple click on the « Vade Retro » logo in the toolbar leads you to the front page of your software. There, you have instant access to all the useful features (Home page, Options, Lists or Statistics).

The feature “Statistic” gives you information on the efficiency of Vade Retro filter through graphs and reports outlining the actions undertaken by the filtering engine regarding the incoming e-mails.

With the individual message management system, you can very simply set up a list of authorized senders (green list), decide to automatically block others (red list) from whom you do not wish to receive any messages and organize the commercial e-mails you want to receive (orange list).

Click on installation file obtained when downloading or on the CD-ROM, then follow on-screen instructions. Make sure to close all applications, especially your Outlook, Outlook Express or Windows Mail, before you start installing Vade Retro.

After installation, launch your e-mail software. Vade Retro restarts automatically and it is added in the shape of a toolbar to the functionalities of your software.

Vade Retro tab gives you access to the following functionalities: treatment, toolbar update status and rules of anti-spam filtering.

With this icon, you can easily add to your Green lists or Red lists the addresses of senders you wish to systematically accept or block messages from. An edition mode enables you to add or delete one or several addresses from your green or rd lists. You can also import addresses from a file, your contacts or a text document directly to your lists.

This feature allows you to sort automatically a message in the “ads” folder created by
the Vade Retro Desktop toolbar. You will have a clearer messaging interface of your inbox.

This functionality enables you to analyze the message or mail folder of your choice. It is very practical when analyzing messages received prior to the installation of Vade Retro. It thereof automatically cleans your messaging system from polluting spams.

Watch over one or several days the efficient protection of you messaging system with Vade Retro. Instantly appreciate the quality of your e-mails with a table summarizing treatments as well as a parameterizable graphic representation of the whole work processed.

For an optimal protection, your toolbar downloads updates for the filtering engine. To enjoy this service, you must subscribe to updates. When you click on this icon, you directly reach « Vade Retro Filter » menu from the main dialog.

At any time, you can consult the on-line Vade Retro manual by clicking on the « help » icon in the toolbar. The assistance menu will automatically appear.

Did you know that 95% of worldwide electronic messages are actually spam? E-mail is a great communication tool but it is equally a source of attacks against the security of your computer (virus, Trojan horse, botnet...) as well as against your personal data (phishing or scamming attempts).

Spam is also a considerable loss of productivity for the users, spending majority of their time cleaning their mailbox. Without a high-performance filter the user gets quickly inundated by the mass of circulating spams and takes the risk of unwillingly deleting legitimate messages.

Commercial e-mail is defined as the entirety of informative or advertising nature messages received by a user in his e-mailbox. This may be newsletters, social networks e-mail notifications or commercial e-mail announcing a promotion, a new product, etc... Unlike spam, these e-mails follow an initial consent of the user.

Unfortunately these messages, "approved at some point," are sent on a more massive basis and can be subsequently very "polluting." This impression of overload has resulted in drastic figures since the volume of e-mails routed increased over 71% in the last two years and amounted in 2010 to 98 billion e-mails of commercial nature routed in France.

The trend is confirmed by our lab experts who also notice a growing importance of the presence of commercial messages. The flow of e-mails analyzed show that over 95% of e-mails are spam.
Of the 5% remaining and delivered into inbox, 41% are e-mails of commercial nature! ** In addition to this “pollution feeling” of the user's e-mailbox, these commercial messages are a significant indirect cost to the company (storage of these messages, loss of user time ...). It is time for action!

*Source: SNCD – Le devenir de l’e-mailing – 2010 ** Source Vade Retro laboratory study in 2011, Q2

Considering the notion of "consent of the user," we cannot assimilate these e-mails to spam and reject them or simply place them in user account. They come in vast majority of cases from organizations meeting e-mailing best practices and have been sought-after at least once by the user. They are just too many and the volume generated drowns the user in his messages who has more and more difficulties to see at a glance the messages "to treat" and thereby he loses productivity. To counteract this steady flow of commercial communications, Vade Retro Technology laboratory experts have developed a new exclusive filter: the Anti-Ads filter.

Vade Retro Anti-Ads filter is able to recognize with high accuracy all communications of commercial nature. And to classify them in 3 specific states:

E-mailing campaigns sent through professional routing platforms. (E-Circle, Experian CheetahMail, MailPerformance, etc…). These market players follow the rules of use for e-mail advertising: unsubscribe links, lists cleaning, etc…

Any advertising e-mail sent and following advertising rules of use and not sent through a professional routing platform. Here the heuristic rules used are predictive and generic.

Any other advertising campaign not following e-mailing rules and presenting poorly organized content, non-compliance with CAN-SPAM, absence of an unsubscribe link, etc. ..

- Add a mark in messages subject like {Mailing} and place it in a specific folder. The user can then choose a "white listing" regarding what kind of message he wishes to receive or not.
- Mark and deliver them in the inbox of the user.
- Reject them upstream of your messaging system.

The Vade Retro Anti-Ads filter is an exclusive technology available as an option on all the professional range of products (MailCube MC², Virtual MailCube MC², Vade Retro Cloud, the SDK and Vade Retro Desktop 4.0.