An email filter is a piece of software that’s installed on a mail server and monitors all inbound email messages so as to hinder any undesired ones from entering a particular inbox. Several examples of such email messages would be: offers for pills or cash, fake bank statements or attachments that contain malicious software sent with the intention to infect your PC. Spam filters typically ‘scan’ the content of an email message and when they come across certain keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the email or redirect it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain hosting providers mix their own filters with up-to-date databases from spam-tracing organizations, so as to ensure higher levels of protection for their customers. Such databases include patterns, mail server IP addresses and other information about spam messages recently detected by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Website Hosting

Our website hosting servers use one of the very best spam filters available. It is called SpamAssassin and is included with every hosting package, so if you host your domains with our company, you can opt for one of the 5 protection levels that the filter offers for any email account 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 shared web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin checks the header field and the body of every email message, gives it a spam score and then continues based on the level that you have selected. Every mailbox can have a different level and you can select if the emails that the anti-spam filter considers as spam should be deleted or forwarded to another email address where you can view them at a later point in time, so as to prevent deleting a genuine email message. Switching to another level or deactivating the anti-spam protection is also incredibly easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you decide to make use of the mail service that is offered with our semi-dedicated services, you can keep all undesired emails out of your inbox by activating the five-level anti-spam protection that we offer with each and every package. This can be accomplished through the feature-rich Email Manager section of the Control Panel and we employ the powerful SpamAssassin filter to make sure that we offer the very best possible protection for our clients. You can have a different anti-spam level for each email account and you can select whether the filtered email messages should be erased or redirected to a different mailbox where you can view them at a later point in time in order to ensure that you won’t omit authentic email messages. Switching to a different level of protection or deactivating the anti-spam protection is also easy and requires several clicks of the mouse.