An email filter is a software application that impedes unwanted email messages from reaching a given mailbox. A substantial percentage of the email correspondence around the world involves spam email messages: offers for pills or money, sham bank notifications, etc. Because of this, it’s rather important to enable filters in order to avoid not only spam messages, but also any possibility of being swindled somehow. Spam filters detect different things, so as to provide higher levels of security – certain words and phrases or the frequency with which they appear in the text, the sender’s address, or the IP address of the sender’s outgoing email server. Web hosts frequently make use of the services of third-party spam-tracing organizations that offer up-to-the-minute databases in order to make spam filtering better and simpler without affecting legitimate messages, even if they include suspicious words or phrases.

Spam Filters in Shared Hosting

If you order a shared hosting plan from our company and if you take advantage of our email services, you will be able to enable anti-spam protection for any of the email accounts that you create from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just a few clicks of the mouse, you can pick between five different levels of protection. In case you start getting spam, you can begin with the lowest one and then slowly boost the level until you stop receiving spam. We make use of one of the very best and most famous filters out there called SpamAssassin. It analyzes the header and the body of each email message that you receive and calculates a spam score, based on which it either deletes a certain message or allows it to reach your inbox. The Hepsia Control Panel will also allow you to create custom filters and either get rid of unasked-for messages or send them to a third-party email address like spam@domain.com where you can examine them once more at a later point in time.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you take advantage of one of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, you will not have to worry about spam messages clogging your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can take advantage of the popular SpamAssassin anti-spam filter that we provide with every semi-dedicated account. Our in-house developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel will permit you to enable the filter for any mailbox with a couple of clicks and you can choose one of the five safety levels – from very high to very low. The level can be changed at any moment if, for example, genuine email messages get blocked, or if unsolicited bulk emails go through and reach your Inbox folder. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered messages to be redirected to a special email account like spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. In this way, you can go through them every now and then to make sure that you haven’t missed an authentic email message.