A spam filter is a piece of software that is installed on a POP3/IMAP server and ‘scans’ all incoming messages in order to obstruct any undesirable ones from reaching a particular mailbox. A few instances of such emails would be: offers for pills or cash, fraudulent banking statements or email attachments that contain malware sent with the intention of infecting your computer. Email filters typically check the content of an email and in case they detect particular keywords or other dubious content, they either erase the message or re-send it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some hosting companies combine their own spam filters with up-to-date databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to ensure higher levels of protection for their clients. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IPs and other information about spam email messages recently reported by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Cloud Hosting

If you order a cloud hosting package from us and if you take advantage of our mail services, you’ll be able to set up spam filtering for any of the mailboxes that you create from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just several clicks, you can select between five separate levels of protection. If you start receiving spam, you can start with the lowest one and then gradually increase the level till you stop receiving spam. We use one of the best and most popular spam filters available called SpamAssassin. It checks the header section and the body of each email that you get and determines a spam score, based on which it either erases a particular email message or allows it to enter your mailbox. Hepsia will also permit you to activate custom filters and either eliminate unwanted emails or re-send them to a 3rd-party address such as spam@domain.com where you can view them once more afterwards.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts offer excellent anti-spam protection ensured by the popular SpamAssassin spam filter, which sorts all inbound messages on the basis of a spam score in accordance with parameters and patterns, such as the frequency of particular keywords, the sender, the subject, etc. When you activate the filter for any account through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Email Manager section, you can pick between five separate safety levels – from very low to very high. If you still get spam, you can raise the level, or if genuine email messages are flagged as spam, you can lower it. Activating or deactivating the anti-spam protection requires as little as two clicks and you can choose if the filtered email messages should be erased instantly or if they should be delivered to a chosen email address where you can check them at a later time, so as to make sure that valuable email messages will not disappear.