A spam filter is a piece of software that’s installed on a POP3/IMAP email server and ‘scans’ all inbound emails to stop any unrequested ones from entering a given mailbox. Several examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, fraudulent banking statements or attachments that contain malware sent with the intention to infect your personal computer. Email filters typically examine the content of an email and if they spot particular keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the message or redirect it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain companies mix their own spam filters with up-to-date databases from spam-tracing organizations, so as to ensure higher levels of safety for their customers. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IPs and other information about spam emails recently detected by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Cloud Website Hosting

Our cloud website hosting servers use one of the very best anti-spam filters available on the market. It’s called SpamAssassin and is included with each and every hosting plan, so in case you host your domains with our company, you can choose one of the 5 levels of safety that the filter offers for any email account that you’ve got here. You can do this with only 2 mouse clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to manage all cloud web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin ‘scans’ the header section and the body of every email, calculates a spam score and then proceeds according to the level that you have selected. Each mailbox can have a different level and you can choose if the emails that the anti-spam filter classifies as spam should be erased or re-sent to some other email account where you can read them at a later point in time, so as to avoid erasing a genuine email message. Switching to another level or deactivating the protection is also pretty easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you take advantage of one of our semi-dedicated hosting, you won’t need to worry about junk messages stuffing your mailboxes every now and then, as you can resort to the popular SpamAssassin filter that we offer with each semi-dedicated hosting account. Our custom-created Hepsia hosting Control Panel will permit you to activate the filter for any email account with a few mouse clicks and you can choose one of the five protection levels – from very high to very low. The level can be altered at any moment if, for example, legitimate messages get blocked, or if junk email messages go through and reach your inbox. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered emails to be redirected to a special email account such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. Thus, you can check them every now and then to make certain that you haven’t missed an authentic message.