An email filter is a software application that’s installed on a POP3/IMAP email server and keeps track of all inbound emails so as to impede any unwanted ones from entering a specific inbox. A few instances of such email messages would be: offers for pills or cash, false bank notices or attachments that contain malicious code sent with the idea of infecting your personal computer. Email filters usually ‘scan’ the content of an email message and when they come across particular keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the email message or re-send it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some hosting companies combine their own email filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-monitoring organizations, so as to guarantee higher levels of safety for their customers. Such databases include patterns, email server IPs and other information about spam messages recently uncovered by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Cloud Hosting

If you get a cloud hosting plan from us and if you use our mail services, you’ll be able to activate anti-spam protection for any of the email accounts that you create from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel. With no more than several mouse clicks, you can pick between 5 separate security levels. In case you start receiving spam, you can start with the lowest one and then gradually increase the level till you stop getting spam. We rely on one of the very best and most famous email filters available on the market called SpamAssassin. It examines the header and the body of each and every message that you get and calculates a spam score, based on which it either erases a specific message or permits it to enter your mailbox. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel will also allow you to create custom filters and either delete undesired email messages or forward them to a 3rd-party email address such as spam@domain.com where you can check them again afterwards.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts provide excellent anti-spam protection ensured by the famous SpamAssassin spam filter, which classifies all inbound emails on the basis of a spam score in accordance with parameters and patterns, such as the frequency of specific keywords and phrases, the subject, the sender, and so on. When you activate the filter for any mailbox through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Email Manager section, you can choose between 5 different protection levels – from very low to very high. If you still receive junk messages, you can increase the level, or if genuine messages are marked as spam, you can lower it. Activating or deactivating the anti-spam protection takes as little as two clicks and you can select if the filtered emails should be deleted momentarily or if they should be delivered to a designated email account where you can view them at a later time, so as to make certain that valuable messages will not get lost.