A spam filter is a software app that’s installed on a POP3/IMAP email server and ‘scans’ all incoming email messages so as to hinder any undesirable ones from reaching a certain mailbox. Several examples of such email messages would be: offers for pills or cash, fake bank notices or email attachments that contain malware sent with the idea to infect your PC. Spam filters typically ‘scan’ the content of an email and if they spot certain keywords or other dubious content, they either erase the email message or deliver it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain web hosting providers mix their own email filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to ensure higher levels of protection for their clients. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IPs and other info about spam emails recently revealed by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Web Hosting

If you decide to host your domains with us and you pick any of our web hosting, you’ll be able to set up anti-spam protection for any email address that you set up. With several mouse clicks in the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you can switch between 5 separate protection levels. If you continue to receive junk email messages or the email filters start preventing genuine emails from reaching your inbox, you can change the level just as easily. The quality of our spam detection solution is ensured by one of the most widely used filters – SpamAssassin. In case you don’t want to risk missing an authentic email message that may be regarded as spam because of its content, you can also set up custom email filters based on the sender, the body or the subject of the email message and re-send the emails to a separate email address where you can view them at a later point in time.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts offer second-to-none spam protection guaranteed by the famous SpamAssassin spam filter, which rates all inbound messages on the basis of a spam score that depends on patterns and parameters, such as the frequency of particular keywords and phrases, the subject, the sender, and so on. When you enable the filter for any account via the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you can pick between five different protection levels – from very low to very high. If you still receive junk email messages, you can increase the level, or if authentic messages are blocked as spam, you can decrease it. Enabling or disabling the anti-spam protection requires as little as two clicks and you can choose if the filtered email messages should be erased right away or if they should be re-sent to a chosen email address where you can read them later, so as to make sure that valuable messages will not get lost.