An email filter is a software app that is installed on a POP3/IMAP email server and keeps track of all incoming email messages so as to stop any undesired ones from entering a specific inbox. A few examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, fraudulent bank notices or email attachments that contain malicious software sent with the idea of infecting your PC. Email filters typically check the content of an email and if they come across certain keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the email or deliver it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some hosting companies mix their own filters with up-to-date databases from spam-tracking organizations, so as to ensure better protection for their clients. Such databases include patterns, mail server IPs and other information about spam emails recently revealed by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Shared Hosting

If you order a shared hosting package from our company and if you make use of our email services, you’ll be able to activate spam filtering for any of the email accounts that you set up from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just a few clicks, you can select between five different security levels. In case you start getting spam, you can start with the lowest level and then slowly increase the level until you stop getting spam. We use one of the very best and most famous email filters available on the market called SpamAssassin. It checks the header section and the body of each email message that you receive and calculates a spam score, based on which it either deletes a particular email message or permits it to enter your inbox. Hepsia will also permit you to create custom spam filters and either erase unwanted messages or send them to a 3rd-party address like spam@domain.com where you can check them once more after that.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts deliver first-class anti-spam protection guaranteed by the famous SpamAssassin spam filter, which rates all incoming messages on the basis of a spam score in accordance with patterns and parameters, such as the frequency of certain keywords and phrases, the sender, the subject, etc. When you enable the filter for any mailbox through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Email Manager section, you can select between 5 different levels of security – from very high to very low. If you still get spam messages, you can increase the level, or if legitimate email messages are blocked as spam, you can lower it. Activating or deactivating the anti-spam protection takes as little as 2 clicks and you can select if the filtered email messages should be deleted immediately or if they should be redirected to a chosen email address where you can read them at a later time, so as to ensure that valuable emails will not get lost.