An email filter is a software app that’s installed on a POP3/IMAP server and ‘scans’ all incoming messages in order to block any unwelcome ones from reaching a specific inbox. A few instances of such emails would be: offers for pills or cash, fake bank statements or email attachments that contain malicious software sent with the intention of infecting your computer. Spam filters normally examine the content of an email message and when they come across particular keywords or other dubious content, they either erase the message or forward it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain web hosting companies mix their own spam filters with up-to-date databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to guarantee better safety for their clients. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IPs and other info about spam messages recently revealed by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Web Hosting

Our web hosting servers employ one of the best anti-spam filters available. It’s called SpamAssassin and is available with each and every shared hosting package, so if you host your domain names with our company, you can choose one of the 5 levels of security that the filter offers for any email account that you’ve got here. You can accomplish this with only 2 mouse clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is used to manage all shared web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin examines the header field and the content of every message, gives it a spam score and then continues according to the level that you have chosen. Each mailbox can have a different level and you can choose whether the emails that the anti-spam filter classifies as spam should be deleted or redirected to a separate mailbox where you can check them at a later time, so as to avoid erasing an authentic email. Changing the level or disabling the protection is also incredibly easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you use one of our semi-dedicated hosting, you won’t have to worry about unsolicited bulk email messages occupying your mailboxes every now and then, as you can resort to the popular SpamAssassin email filter that we offer with each and every semi-dedicated server account. Our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel will permit you to enable the filter for any mailbox with a couple of clicks and you can choose any of the 5 levels of safety – from very high to very low. The level can be changed at any moment if, for instance, authentic email messages get filtered, or if unsolicited bulk messages go through and reach your Inbox folder. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered messages to be forwarded to a special mailbox such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. Thus, you can examine them from time to time to ensure that you haven’t omitted an authentic email message.