A spam filter is an app that obstructs unwanted messages from reaching a given mailbox. An immense percentage of the email traffic around the world is composed of spam emails: offers for pills or cash, forged banking notifications, etc. For this reason, it’s extremely important to activate email filters in order to avoid not only spam emails, but also any possibility of being scammed in some way. Spam filters detect different things, so as to guarantee higher levels of security – specific words and phrases or the frequency with which they surface in the text, the sender’s address, or the IP address of the sender’s outgoing mail server. Hosting providers often use the services of 3rd-party spam-tracing organizations that provide up-to-the-minute databases in order to make spam filtering better and easier without affecting authentic messages, even if they comprise suspicious words.

Spam Filters in Website Hosting

Our website hosting servers employ one of the best spam filters out there. It’s called SpamAssassin and is offered with each and every shared hosting plan, so in case you host your domain names with our company, you can choose one of the five safety levels that the filter offers for any email account that you’ve got here. You can do this with only two clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to manage all cloud hosting accounts. SpamAssassin examines the header section and the content of each email, calculates a spam score and then continues in accordance with the level that you’ve opted for. Each email account can have a different level and you can select if the email messages that the anti-spam filter reports as spam should be deleted or forwarded to another mailbox where you can examine them at a later point in time, so as to avoid erasing an authentic email. Switching to another level or disabling the anti-spam protection is also amazingly easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you take advantage of one of our Linux semi-dedicated plans, you will not have to worry about unsolicited bulk email messages cramming your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can take advantage of the famous SpamAssassin filter that we offer with each and every semi-dedicated hosting account. Our custom-built Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to enable the filter for any email account with a few clicks of the mouse and you can select one of the five safety levels – from very low to very high. The level can be altered at any moment if, for example, legitimate messages get blocked, or if spam emails go through and appear in your Inbox folder. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered emails to be redirected to a special email account like spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. In this way, you can check them every now and then to ensure that you have not missed an authentic email.