An email filter is a piece of software that’s installed on a POP3/IMAP mail server and keeps track of all incoming emails in order to block any unasked-for ones from reaching a particular inbox. Several examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, false banking notices or email attachments that contain malicious code sent with the intention of infecting your personal computer. Email filters usually check the content of an email and when they come across particular keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the message or forward it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some web hosting providers combine their own spam filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to ensure higher levels of safety for their clients. Such databases include patterns, email server IPs and other info about spam messages recently reported by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Cloud Hosting

If you get a cloud hosting package from us and if you make use of our mail services, you will be able to set up spam filters for any of the mailboxes that you create from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel. With no more than several clicks of the mouse, you can select between 5 different levels of safety. In case you start receiving spam, you can start with the lowest level and then slowly boost the level until you stop receiving spam. We rely on one of the best and most popular spam filters available called SpamAssassin. It examines the header section and the body of every email that you get and calculates a spam score, based on which it either erases a given email or permits it to enter your mailbox. The Hepsia Control Panel will also permit you to configure custom email filters and either delete undesirable messages or re-send them to a third-party email address like spam@domain.com where you can check them once again at a later time.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you decide to use the email service that is offered with our Linux semi-dedicated service, you can keep all unwanted email messages out of your inbox by enabling the 5-level anti-spam protection that we provide with every semi-dedicated server plan. This can be done through the feature-crammed Email Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and we use the advanced SpamAssassin email filter to make certain that we offer the very best possible protection for our clients. You can have a different protection level for each mailbox and you can select if the filtered email messages should be deleted or delivered to some other email address where you can view them at a later time so as to ensure that you won’t omit authentic email messages. Switching to some other level or deactivating the protection is also easy and takes a few clicks of the mouse.