A spam filter is a piece of software that runs on a POP3/IMAP email server and monitors all incoming emails to impede any undesired ones from entering a given mailbox. Several examples of such email messages would be: offers for pills or money, fake bank notifications or attachments that contain malware sent with the idea of damaging your computer. Email filters typically examine the content of an email and when they come across some keywords or other suspicious content, they either erase the email message or forward it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain hosting companies mix their own filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-monitoring organizations, so as to ensure better protection for their clients. Such databases contain patterns, email server IP addresses and other information about spam messages recently detected by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Shared Hosting

Our shared hosting servers rely on one of the very best spam filters available. It’s called SpamAssassin and is available with every plan, so in case you host your domain names with us, you can select one of the 5 levels of protection that the filter offers for any mailbox that you have here. You can accomplish this with just 2 mouse clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to manage all web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin ‘scans’ the header and the body of each email message, calculates a spam score and then proceeds according to the level that you have selected. Every email account can have a different setting and you can choose whether the messages that the filter classifies as spam should be deleted or delivered to some other email account where you can examine them at a later point in time, so as to prevent deleting an authentic email message. Changing the level or disabling the protection is also remarkably easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you use a semi-dedicated server package from our company and if you create one or more mailboxes with any of the domain names hosted under the account, you’ll be able to enable the advanced, 5-level SpamAssassin anti-spam filter that we provide and keep all unsolicited emails away from your inbox. This feature is accessible through the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and it can be activated or deactivated for any email account whenever you want. You can also change the level of protection with a few clicks of the mouse in case spam email messages still appear in your inbox or the filter begins removing genuine messages. Since you can select whether the spam should be erased instantaneously or re-sent to another mailbox, you can set up spam@domain.com, for instance, and check all filtered email messages there, so as to make certain that you will not omit an email that you require. The email messages that the anti-spam filter allows to go through will still be delivered to your inbox.