An email filter is a piece of software that runs on a POP3/IMAP server and keeps track of all inbound emails to prevent any undesirable ones from reaching a certain inbox. A few examples of such email messages would be: offers for pills or money, false banking statements or attachments that contain malicious code sent with the idea of damaging your computer. Spam filters usually examine the content of an email and in case they spot specific keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the email or forward it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain web hosting providers mix their own spam filters with up-to-date databases from spam-tracking organizations, so as to guarantee better safety for their customers. Such databases include patterns, email server IP addresses and other information about spam emails recently reported by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Shared Web Hosting

If you get a shared web hosting package from our company and if you take advantage of our mail services, you’ll be able to set up anti-spam protection for any of the mailboxes that you create from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel. With no more than a few clicks of the mouse, you can choose between 5 separate security levels. If you start receiving spam, you can start with the lowest level and then gradually raise the level until you stop receiving spam. We make use of one of the best and most popular spam filters available on the market called SpamAssassin. It analyzes the header section and the body of each email message that you get and determines a spam score, based on which it either deletes a certain email or allows it to enter your inbox. Hepsia will also allow you to activate custom filters and either delete undesired messages or send them to a third-party address like spam@domain.com where you can read them once again afterwards.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you decide to use the mail service that comes with our Linux semi-dedicated packages, you can keep all unwelcome emails away from your mailbox by enabling the five-level spam protection service that we provide with each and every package. This can be accomplished via the feature-stuffed Email Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and we employ the advanced SpamAssassin filter to make sure that we provide the very best possible security for our clients. You can have a different level of protection for each email account and you can choose if the filtered messages should be deleted or re-sent to a different email address where you can check them at a later point in time to make certain that you will not lose genuine email messages. Switching to some other level or deactivating the spam protection is also easy and takes a few clicks.