A spam filter is a software application that stops unasked-for messages from entering a particular mailbox. An enormous percentage of the email communication around the world is composed of spam email messages: offers for pills or money, fraudulent banking notifications, etc. This is why, it is pretty important to use email filters to avoid not only unsolicited bulk email messages, but also any possibility of being conned in some way. Spam filters detect various things, so as to ensure higher levels of safety – certain words or the frequency with which they occur in the text, the sender’s address, or the IP of the sender’s outgoing mail server. Hosting companies frequently make use of the services of third-party spam-tracking organizations that provide up-to-date databases to render spam filtering better and easier without affecting genuine email messages, even if they include suspicious words or phrases.

Spam Filters in Web Hosting

If you get a web hosting plan from our company and if you use our email services, you’ll be able to enable spam filters for any of the mailboxes that you set up from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel. With just a few clicks, you can pick between five different levels of security. In case you start receiving spam, you can begin with the lowest level and then slowly raise the level till you stop receiving spam. We make use of one of the best and most popular spam filters available called SpamAssassin. It examines the header section and the body of each and every email message that you get and calculates a spam score, based on which it either erases a specific email or allows it to enter your mailbox. The Hepsia Control Panel will also allow you to configure custom email filters and either eliminate unwanted emails or redirect them to a third-party address like spam@domain.com where you can check them once again at a later point in time.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you reach the decision to make use of the email service that is offered with our semi-dedicated services, you can keep all unwanted emails away from your mailbox by activating the 5-level anti-spam protection that we provide with each and every semi-dedicated server package. This can be done through the feature-packed Email Manager section of the Control Panel and we rely on the advanced SpamAssassin spam filter to make sure that we provide the best possible security for our clients. You can have a different anti-spam level for each email account and you can select whether the filtered messages should be erased or redirected to some other mailbox where you can check them at a later time in order to make certain that you won’t skip legitimate messages. Switching to a different protection level or deactivating the spam protection is also easy and takes a few clicks.