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Add a Dedicated Spam Folder for Messages Filtered by Custom Keywords #792

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Feature description

Fossify Messages currently allows users to define custom keywords and phrases for filtering unwanted SMS messages. This is a great privacy-friendly feature and works well for reducing spam.

However, messages matching these keyword filters are currently hidden from the main inbox without providing a dedicated place where users can review them later.

I would like to request a dedicated Spam or Filtered Messages folder where messages matched by user-defined keyword filters are stored instead of being completely hidden. The folder could be accessible from the navigation menu or another suitable location within the app.

Users should be able to review filtered messages and optionally restore, whitelist, or delete them.

Why do you want this feature?

Keyword-based filtering is inherently imperfect. The presence of a specific word or phrase does not guarantee that a message is actually spam.

Users may accidentally configure keywords that later appear in legitimate messages, such as bank notifications, delivery updates, authentication codes, or personal communications. In these cases, important messages can be filtered unintentionally.

This is not a theoretical concern. Older versions of Samsung Messages used a similar spam folder for keyword-filtered messages. One reason such a folder is important is that users often forget which keywords they configured and only realize much later that legitimate messages have been filtered.

Without a dedicated folder, false positives can cause important SMS messages to be missed permanently. Since there is no certainty that a filtered message is truly spam, users should always have the ability to review messages that were filtered by custom keywords.

This makes the feature both a usability improvement and an important safeguard against accidental message loss.

Additional information

Possible enhancements:

  • Show a badge or indicator when new filtered messages arrive.
  • Allow automatic deletion after a configurable period.
  • Provide search functionality within the spam folder.
  • Allow restoring messages back to the main inbox.
  • Allow marking specific senders as trusted to bypass keyword filtering.

The main goal is to ensure that keyword filtering remains effective while preventing accidental loss of legitimate messages due to false positives.

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