A spam filter is a software application that’s installed on an email server and keeps track of all inbound emails so as to obstruct any unasked-for ones from entering a specific mailbox. Several examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, fraudulent banking statements or attachments that contain malicious software sent with the intention to infect your computer. Email filters usually check the content of an email message and in case they come across some keywords or other suspicious content, they either erase the email message or forward it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain web hosting providers combine their own filters with up-to-date databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to guarantee better security for their clients. Such databases include patterns, email server IP addresses and other info about spam messages recently uncovered by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Shared Hosting

If you decide to host your domain names with our company and you choose any of our Linux shared hosting, you’ll be able to enable anti-spam protection for any email account that you set up. With several clicks of the mouse in the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel, you can configure five different security levels. In case you continue to receive unsolicited bulk email messages or the filters start preventing genuine messages from reaching your inbox, you can switch to another level just as easily. The efficiency of our spam filtering service is guaranteed by one of the most popular spam filters – SpamAssassin. In case you do not want to risk omitting an authentic email message that may be blocked as spam owing to its content, you can also create custom filters based on the sender, the subject or the body of the message and forward the emails to a separate mailbox where you can review them later.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you take advantage of one of our Linux semi-dedicated servers, you won’t have to worry about junk messages stuffing your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can take advantage of the famous SpamAssassin filter that we provide with each and every semi-dedicated account. Our custom-developed 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 any of the 5 security levels – from very low to very high. The level can be altered at any time if, for example, authentic email messages get blocked, or if junk email messages go through and reach your Inbox folder. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered messages to be forwarded to a special mailbox such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. Thus, you can go through them every now and then to make certain that you haven’t omitted an authentic email message.