An email filter is a software application that’s installed on a POP3/IMAP mail server and ‘scans’ all incoming email messages in order to hinder any undesirable ones from entering a specific mailbox. A few examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, fraudulent bank statements or attachments that contain malicious code sent with the intention to infect your PC. Spam filters typically examine the content of an email and when they come across given keywords or other suspicious content, they either erase the email message or redirect it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain companies mix their own filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-monitoring organizations, so as to ensure higher levels of safety for their customers. Such databases include patterns, email server IP addresses and other info about spam email messages recently reported by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Web Hosting

Our web hosting servers employ one of the very best anti-spam filters available on the market. It’s called SpamAssassin and is offered with each hosting package, so if you host your domain names with us, you can select one of the 5 levels of safety that the filter offers for any email account that you have here. You can accomplish this with only 2 mouse clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that’s used to manage all shared accounts. SpamAssassin examines the header section and the content of each and every email, gives it a spam score and then continues on the basis of the level that you’ve opted for. Each mailbox can have a different level and you can choose if the emails that the spam filter flags as spam should be erased or redirected to a different email address where you can read them later, so as to prevent erasing a legitimate email. Switching to a different level or deactivating the spam protection is also quite easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server packages deliver first-class spam protection guaranteed by the popular SpamAssassin spam filter, which rates all incoming email messages based on a spam score in accordance with patterns and parameters, such as the frequency of certain keywords and phrases, the subject, the sender, and so on. When you activate the filter for any mailbox through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Email Manager section, you can pick between 5 different levels of protection – from very high to very low. If you keep receiving junk messages, you can increase the level, or if authentic emails are mistaken for spam, you can decrease it. Activating or deactivating the anti-spam protection takes as little as 2 clicks and you can select if the filtered emails should be deleted momentarily or if they should be delivered to a designated email address where you can read them at a later time, so as to make sure that important emails won’t get lost.