A spam filter is an app that impedes undesired emails from reaching a particular mailbox. A significant percentage of the email traffic around the world involves spam messages: offers for pills or money, forged banking notifications, etc. For this reason, it’s very important to enable filters to avoid not only spam messages, but also any possibility of being duped somehow. Filters detect various things, so as to ensure higher levels of security – particular words and phrases or the frequency with which they surface in the text, the sender’s email address, or the IP of the sender’s SMTP mail server. Hosting companies frequently resort to the services of 3rd-party spam-monitoring organizations that offer up-to-date databases in order to make spam filtering better and easier without affecting genuine emails, even if they comprise suspicious words or phrases.
Spam Filters in Shared Hosting
Our shared hosting servers employ one of the best spam filters available on the market. It is called SpamAssassin and is included with every web hosting plan, so if you host your domain names with our company, you can select one of the five levels of security that the spam filter offers for any email account that you have here. You can accomplish this with only 2 mouse clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to manage all web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin ‘scans’ the header section and the content of each message, calculates a spam score and then continues in accordance with the level that you have picked. Each mailbox can have a different level and you can choose if the emails that the anti-spam filter considers as spam should be erased or delivered to some other email address where you can examine them later, so as to prevent deleting a legitimate email message. Switching to another level or disabling the protection is also astonishingly easy.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you use one of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting plans, you won’t have to worry about unsolicited bulk messages occupying your mailboxes every now and then, as you can take advantage of the popular SpamAssassin email filter that we offer with each and every semi-dedicated account. Our custom-created Hepsia hosting Control Panel will permit you to enable the filter for any mailbox with a couple of clicks of the mouse and you can pick one of the 5 levels of safety – from very high to very low. The level can be changed at any moment if, for example, legitimate messages get filtered, or if junk emails go through and appear in your inbox. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered messages to be forwarded to a special mailbox such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. In this way, you can examine them from time to time to make sure that you haven’t omitted a genuine email message.