A spam filter is a software app that is installed on a POP3/IMAP mail server and ‘scans’ all incoming email messages in order to obstruct any undesired ones from reaching a particular mailbox. A few examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or cash, fraudulent bank notices or attachments that contain malicious code sent with the intention of infecting your PC. Email filters usually ‘scan’ the content of an email message and in case they spot particular keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the email message or forward it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain web hosting companies combine their own spam filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to ensure better safety for their customers. Such databases include patterns, mail server IP addresses and other info about spam emails recently uncovered by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Web Hosting

Our web hosting servers employ one of the best spam filters out there. It’s called SpamAssassin and is included with each web hosting package, so if you host your domain names with our company, you can choose one of the 5 levels of safety that the spam filter offers for any mailbox that you’ve got here. You can do this with only two clicks of the mouse from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel that’s used to manage all cloud hosting accounts. SpamAssassin ‘scans’ the header and the body of every email message, gives it a spam score and then continues in accordance with the level that you’ve picked. Every mailbox can have a different setting and you can choose if the messages that the filter marks as spam should be deleted or forwarded to another mailbox where you can view them at a later time, so as to prevent erasing an authentic message. Switching to some other level or deactivating the anti-spam protection is also really easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you decide to make use of the email service that is offered with our Linux semi-dedicated hosting service, you can keep all unsolicited emails out of your mailbox by enabling the 5-level anti-spam protection that we provide with each semi-dedicated hosting package. This can be done via the feature-rich Email Manager section of the Control Panel and we rely on the powerful SpamAssassin spam filter to make sure that we provide the best possible security for our clients. You can have a different protection level for each email account and you can select whether the filtered email messages should be erased or re-sent to another email account where you can check them at a later time in order to ensure that you will not lose legitimate emails. Switching to a different level of protection or disabling the protection is also easy and takes several clicks of the mouse.