An email filter is a software app that is installed on an email server and keeps track of all incoming email messages so as to block any unasked-for ones from entering a specific inbox. Several instances of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, fraudulent banking notifications or attachments that contain malware sent with the idea of damaging your PC. Email filters normally examine the content of an email and when they come across given keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the email message or forward it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain web hosts combine their own spam filters with up-to-date databases from spam-monitoring organizations, so as to guarantee better safety for their clients. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IP addresses and other information about spam email messages recently detected by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Website Hosting

The protection of any email account that you set up under a website hosting account with us is ensured by the advanced SpamAssassin filter that we employ. You can activate it through the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel and it comes with five safety levels based on the spam score given to every email message depending on various parameters, such as the frequency of certain words and phrases, the sender, and so on. If you keep receiving spam, you can always increase the level or if you are scared that you may skip a genuine email, you can combine the automated email filter with a custom one and redirect all email messages from a given sender to some other mailbox. If you decide that you no longer require an email filter for a particular mailbox, you can deactivate it with no more than a couple of clicks.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you take advantage of one of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, you won’t need to worry about spam emails clogging your mailboxes every now and then, as you can make use of the famous SpamAssassin anti-spam filter that we provide with each and every semi-dedicated hosting account. Our custom-built Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to enable the filter for any mailbox with several clicks and you can choose any of the 5 levels of security – from very high to very low. The level can be changed at any moment if, for example, genuine emails get blocked, or if junk email messages go through and reach your inbox. 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 deleted. Thus, you can go through them every now and then to ensure that you have not omitted a legitimate email message.