A spam filter is a software app that runs on a POP3/IMAP email server and ‘scans’ all inbound email messages so as to hinder any undesired ones from entering a particular mailbox. A few examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or cash, fraudulent bank statements or email attachments that contain malicious software sent with the idea to infect your personal computer. Spam filters typically ‘scan’ the content of an email message and when they spot particular keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the email or deliver it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some providers mix their own spam filters with up-to-date databases from spam-tracing organizations, so as to guarantee better security for their customers. Such databases include patterns, email server IPs and other info about spam messages recently uncovered by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Web Hosting

If you get a web hosting package from our company and if you take advantage of our mail services, you will be able to set up spam filters for any of the email accounts that you set up from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel. With only several clicks, you can pick between 5 different levels of protection. If you start getting spam, you can start with the lowest one and then gradually raise the level till you stop getting spam. We make use of one of the very best and most famous spam filters available on the market called SpamAssassin. It examines the header and the body of every message that you receive and determines a spam score, based on which it either deletes a certain message or allows it to enter your mailbox. Hepsia will also allow you to activate custom filters and either get rid of undesired email messages or re-send them to a third-party address such as spam@domain.com where you can examine them again afterwards.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you take advantage of one of our Linux semi-dedicated services, you won’t need to worry about spam email messages filling up your mailboxes every now and then, as you can take advantage of the popular SpamAssassin spam filter that we offer with each and every account. Our custom Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to enable the filter for any email account with a couple of clicks of the mouse and you can select one of the 5 levels of safety – from very low to very high. The level can be changed at any time if, for instance, authentic emails get blocked, or if spam messages go through and appear in your inbox. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered email messages to be redirected to a special email account such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. Thus, you can check them every now and then to make certain that you haven’t missed a genuine message.