How does SpamDrain work?

Well that depends a bit on how it is set up.

CLEANS
With a basic SpamDrain setup every e-mail first lands in your online e-mail account and SpamDrain continuously monitors* your e-mail account and clean it from spam and viruses.

FILTERS
If you have a  SpamDrain+ account the spam can either be cleaned out as above or it can be setup so that all your e-mails pass through our servers where spam and viruses are filtered out and the real e-mails are then delivered to you.

*Accounts set up with IMAP-fetching are constantly monitored, spam is cleaned out only  a few seconds after arrival. With POP3-fetching accounts are checked and cleaned every 30 seconds. Spamdrain always tries to set it up with IMAP as this is better . If you are using PO3 the cleaning of our inbox might not work as smooth try to change to IMAP if this is possible.