A spam filter is a piece of software that runs on a POP3/IMAP email server and keeps track of all inbound messages to block any unwelcome ones from entering a certain mailbox. A few examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, fraudulent banking notifications or email attachments that contain malware sent with the intention of infecting your computer. Spam filters usually examine the content of an email and if they detect given keywords or other dubious content, they either erase the message or forward it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some web hosting companies mix their own email filters with up-to-date databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to ensure better protection for their customers. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IP addresses and other info about spam messages recently revealed by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Hosting

If you order a hosting package from our company and if you make use of our email services, you will be able to enable spam filters for any of the mailboxes that you create from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just a few clicks, you can select between five different protection levels. In case you start getting spam, you can begin with the lowest one and then slowly raise the level until you stop getting spam. We make use of one of the best and most famous email filters available on the market called SpamAssassin. It ‘scans’ the header field and the body of each email message that you get and calculates a spam score, based on which it either erases a specific message or permits it to reach your inbox. Hepsia will also allow you to activate custom filters and either delete unsolicited emails or re-send them to a 3rd-party email address like spam@domain.com where you can examine them again after that.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you use one of our semi-dedicated services, you will not need to worry about unsolicited bulk messages filling up your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can take advantage of the famous SpamAssassin email filter that we offer with each semi-dedicated hosting account. Our in-house created Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to enable the filter for any email account with a few clicks and you can choose any of the five levels of protection – from very high to very low. The level can be changed at any moment if, for instance, legitimate emails get blocked, or if junk messages go through and appear in your Inbox folder. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered email messages to be re-sent to a special email account such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. In this way, you can go through them from time to time to ensure that you have not missed out on an authentic message.