A spam filter is a piece of software that’s installed on an email server and keeps track of all incoming messages so as to prevent any unsolicited ones from reaching a particular mailbox. Several examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or cash, false banking notifications or attachments that contain malicious software sent with the intention of infecting your personal computer. Email filters normally ‘scan’ the content of an email and if they spot certain keywords or other dubious content, they either erase the email or deliver it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some web hosting companies combine their own filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to ensure better protection for their clients. Such databases include patterns, mail server IPs and other info about spam emails recently revealed by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Shared Hosting

If you decide to host your domain names with our company and you select any of our Linux shared hosting packages, you will be able to enable spam filters for any email account that you create. With a couple of clicks of the mouse in the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you can switch between five separate levels of safety. If you continue to receive spam email messages or the spam filters start preventing genuine messages from entering your mailbox, you can change the level just as easily. The quality of our spam detection service is ensured by one of the most famous filters – SpamAssassin. If you do not want to risk skipping a legitimate email message that may be considered as spam because of its content, you can also set up custom spam filters based on the sender, the subject or the body of the message and redirect the emails to a different email account where you can check them at a later time.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts deliver top-of-the-line spam protection guaranteed by the famous SpamAssassin spam filter, which rates all incoming email messages on the basis of a spam score in accordance with patterns and parameters, such as the frequency of certain keywords and phrases, the sender, the subject, and so on. When you enable the filter for any account through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Email Manager section, you can pick between 5 separate levels of safety – from very high to very low. If you continue to receive unsolicited bulk email messages, you can increase the level, or if legitimate email messages are classified as spam, you can decrease it. Enabling or disabling the anti-spam protection requires as little as 2 mouse clicks and you can choose if the filtered messages should be deleted right away or if they should be re-sent to a designated email address where you can examine them later, so as to make sure that valuable emails will not get lost.