An email filter is a software application that runs on a POP3/IMAP email server and keeps track of all incoming email messages in order to hinder any unrequested ones from reaching a specific mailbox. A few instances of such email messages would be: offers for pills or money, false banking notices or email attachments that contain malicious code sent with the intention of infecting your PC. Email filters typically examine the content of an email message and when they spot given keywords or other suspicious content, they either erase the message or forward it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some web hosting companies mix their own spam filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-tracing organizations, so as to guarantee higher levels of protection for their clients. Such databases contain patterns, email server IP addresses and other info about spam messages recently revealed by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Cloud Web Hosting

Our cloud web hosting servers rely on one of the very best anti-spam filters available on the market. It is called SpamAssassin and is included with each shared web hosting plan, so if you host your domain names with us, you can select one of the five security levels that the filter offers for any email account that you have here. You can accomplish this with only two clicks of the mouse from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to manage all shared accounts. SpamAssassin ‘scans’ the header section and the content of each and every message, calculates a spam score and then continues based on the level that you’ve selected. Each email account can have a different setting and you can choose whether the emails that the spam filter considers as spam should be deleted or redirected to a different mailbox where you can review them later, so as to prevent deleting a genuine message. Switching to some other level or disabling the anti-spam protection is also incredibly easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you get a semi-dedicated server package from our company and if you set up one or more mailboxes with any of the domain names hosted under your account, you’ll be able to enable the powerful, five-level SpamAssassin spam filter that we provide and keep all unsolicited email messages away from your inbox. This option is accessible through the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it can be enabled or disabled for any email account at any moment. You can also alter the level of security with several clicks if spam messages still appear in your inbox or the email filter starts deleting legitimate email messages. Since you can select if the spam should be erased momentarily or delivered to some other email address, you can set up spam@domain.com, for instance, and view all filtered email messages there, so as to make certain that you won’t miss an email message that you need. The messages that the spam filter permits to go through will still appear in your inbox.