An email filter is a software application that’s installed on a POP3/IMAP server and keeps track of all incoming messages to hinder any unasked-for ones from entering a specific mailbox. Several examples of such email messages would be: offers for pills or cash, false banking notifications or email attachments that contain malware sent with the intention to infect your computer. Email filters typically check the content of an email and if they detect certain keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the email or redirect it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some web hosting providers combine their own spam filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to ensure better security for their customers. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IP addresses and other information about spam messages recently uncovered by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Cloud Website Hosting

If you get a cloud website hosting package from our company and if you make use of our email services, you will be able to activate anti-spam protection for any of the mailboxes that you set up from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel. With only several mouse clicks, you can pick between 5 separate security levels. In case you start getting spam, you can begin with the lowest level and then slowly increase the level till you stop getting spam. We rely on one of the best and most popular email filters available called SpamAssassin. It ‘scans’ the header section and the body of each message that you get and calculates a spam score, based on which it either deletes a given email or allows it to reach your inbox. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel will also allow you to activate custom spam filters and either eliminate undesired emails or forward them to a third-party address like spam@domain.com where you can check them again at a later time.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server plans come with top-level anti-spam protection guaranteed by the famous SpamAssassin email 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 particular keywords, the sender, the subject, etc. When you enable the filter for any mailbox through the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel, you can pick between five different levels – from very high to very low. If you keep getting unsolicited bulk messages, you can increase the level, or if genuine emails are marked as spam, you can lower it. Activating or deactivating the anti-spam protection takes as little as two mouse clicks and you can choose if the filtered email messages should be deleted momentarily or if they should be delivered to a designated email account where you can view them at a later point in time, so as to ensure that important email messages will not get lost.