A spam filter is a software app that prevents undesirable messages from reaching a particular mailbox. A large percentage of the email communication around the globe consists of spam email messages: offers for pills or cash, fake bank notifications, and so on. For this reason, it’s quite important to enable email filters to avoid not only unsolicited bulk messages, but also any possibility of being duped in some way. Email filters detect different things, so as to guarantee higher levels of safety – specific words or the frequency with which they appear in the text, the sender’s email address, or the IP address of the sender’s outgoing email server. Hosting companies frequently resort to the services of third-party spam-tracing organizations that provide up-to-date databases to make spam filtering better and simpler without affecting legitimate email messages, even if they comprise suspicious words or phrases.

Spam Filters in Cloud Website Hosting

Our cloud website hosting servers use one of the best spam filters available on the market. It is called SpamAssassin and is included with every shared hosting plan, so if you host your domains with us, you can pick one of the 5 levels of safety that the filter offers for any email account that you have here. You can do this with only 2 mouse clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that’s used to manage all shared hosting accounts. SpamAssassin ‘scans’ the header field and the content of each email, gives it a spam score and then continues based on the level that you have opted for. Every mailbox can have a different level and you can choose whether the email messages that the filter marks as spam should be erased or re-sent to a different email account where you can review them at a later point in time, so as to avoid erasing a genuine email. Changing the level or deactivating the anti-spam protection is also exceptionally easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you take advantage of one of our semi-dedicated servers, you will not have to worry about junk emails clogging your mailboxes all the time, as you can take advantage of the popular SpamAssassin spam filter that we offer with each and every account. Our custom-developed Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to activate the filter for any mailbox with several mouse clicks and you can choose any of the five security levels – from very low to very high. The level can be altered at any moment if, for example, authentic messages get filtered, or if spam email messages go through and appear in your Inbox folder. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered emails to be delivered to a special email account like spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. In this way, you can check them from time to time to make certain that you have not missed an authentic email message.