An email filter is a software app that prevents unwanted email messages from entering a given inbox. A large percentage of the email traffic around the world involves spam emails: offers for pills or money, sham banking notifications, and so on. Because of this, it is very important to use filters to avoid not only unsolicited bulk email messages, but also any chance of being tricked in some way. Email filters detect different things, so as to guarantee higher levels of safety – certain words or the frequency with which they surface in the text, the sender’s address, or the IP address of the sender’s outbound email server. Hosting providers frequently make use of the services of 3rd-party spam-detecting organizations that offer up-to-date databases in order to render email filtering better and easier without affecting genuine messages, even if they include suspicious words.

Spam Filters in Cloud Hosting

If you order a cloud hosting plan from our company and if you make use of our mail services, you will be able to enable anti-spam protection for any of the mailboxes that you create from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel. With just a few mouse clicks, you can choose between 5 different protection levels. If you start getting spam, you can start with the lowest one and then gradually raise the level till you stop getting spam. We rely on one of the best and most popular spam filters available on the market called SpamAssassin. It ‘scans’ the header section and the body of each and every message that you receive and determines a spam score, based on which it either erases a specific email or allows it to reach your mailbox. The Hepsia Control Panel will also permit you to configure custom filters and either delete undesirable messages or redirect them to a 3rd-party address such as 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 use one of our Linux semi-dedicated packages, you won’t need to worry about junk email messages cramming your mailboxes all the time, as you can make use of the famous SpamAssassin spam filter that we provide with each and every semi-dedicated server account. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to enable the filter for any mailbox with several mouse clicks and you can select any of the five protection levels – from very low to very high. The level can be altered at any time if, for instance, genuine emails get filtered, or if unsolicited bulk messages go through and reach your inbox. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered messages to be forwarded to a special email account like spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. Thus, you can go through them every now and then to ensure that you have not missed out on a legitimate email.