A spam filter is a software application that is installed on an email server and ‘scans’ all incoming email messages so as to stop any unsolicited ones from reaching a specific mailbox. A few instances of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, fake banking notifications or attachments that contain malicious code sent with the intention to infect your computer. Email filters typically check the content of an email and when they detect given keywords or other dubious content, they either erase the email or redirect it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain web hosts combine their own filters with up-to-date databases from spam-monitoring organizations, so as to guarantee higher levels of security for their customers. Such databases contain patterns, email server IP addresses and other info about spam emails recently detected by these organizations.
Spam Filters in Shared Hosting
The security of any mailbox that you set up in a shared hosting account with us is guaranteed by the powerful SpamAssassin spam filter that we use. You can activate it through the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel and it comes with 5 levels of security based on the spam score given to each and every email message in accordance with different criteria, such as the frequency of specific words, the sender, and so on. If you keep getting junk messages, you can always increase the level or if you’re scared that you may omit an authentic email, you can combine the automatic filter with a custom one and forward all emails from a specific sender to another email account. In case you reach the decision that you no longer want anti-spam protection for a given email account, you can deactivate it with just several clicks of the mouse.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you use a semi-dedicated server package from our company and if you create one or more email addresses with any of the domains hosted in the account, you will be able to enable the advanced, 5-level SpamAssassin email filter that we provide and keep all unwanted email messages away from your mailbox. This service is accessible through the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and it can be enabled or disabled for any email account whenever you want. You can also alter the level of protection with a few clicks of the mouse in case spam email messages still appear in your inbox or the anti-spam filter starts deleting authentic messages. Since you can select if the spam should be erased momentarily or redirected to a separate email address, you can set up spam@domain.com, for example, and check all filtered emails there, so as to ensure that you won’t miss a message that you require. The email messages that the anti-spam filter allows to go through will still be received in your mailbox.