An email filter is a piece of software that’s installed on an email server and ‘scans’ all inbound email messages so as to hinder any unrequested ones from entering a specific mailbox. Several instances of such email messages would be: offers for pills or money, false banking notices or attachments that contain malware sent with the idea of damaging your computer. Email filters typically ‘scan’ the content of an email message and in case they come across particular keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the email message or deliver it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain hosting providers combine their own filters with up-to-date databases from spam-tracking organizations, so as to guarantee better security for their customers. Such databases contain patterns, email server IPs and other information about spam email messages recently reported by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Website Hosting

Our website hosting servers use one of the best anti-spam filters available. It’s called SpamAssassin and is offered with every hosting package, so in case you host your domains with us, you can choose one of the five security levels that the filter offers for any email account that you have here. You can do this with just two clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to manage all cloud hosting accounts. SpamAssassin checks the header section and the body of every email, calculates a spam score and then continues on the basis of the level that you’ve opted for. Each mailbox can have a different setting and you can select if the messages that the spam filter marks as spam should be deleted or delivered to a separate email account where you can read them later, so as to avoid erasing a genuine message. Changing the level or disabling the protection is also remarkably easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you use one of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, you won’t have to worry about junk email messages occupying your mailboxes every now and then, as you can make use of the popular SpamAssassin email filter that we provide with each semi-dedicated account. Our custom-built Hepsia hosting Control Panel will allow you to activate the filter for any mailbox with a couple of mouse clicks and you can select any of the five levels of safety – from very high to very low. The level can be changed at any moment if, for instance, authentic emails get blocked, or if spam messages go through and reach your Inbox folder. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered email messages to be re-sent to a special mailbox such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. Thus, you can check them from time to time to make certain that you haven’t missed out on a legitimate email.