An email filter is a piece of software that is installed on a POP3/IMAP server and ‘scans’ all inbound emails in order to obstruct any unwanted ones from reaching a certain inbox. Several examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or cash, false banking statements or email attachments that contain malicious code sent with the idea to damage your personal computer. Spam filters typically check the content of an email message and when they come across some keywords or other suspicious content, they either erase the message or deliver it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain hosting companies combine their own spam filters with up-to-date databases from spam-tracking organizations, so as to ensure higher levels of safety for their clients. Such databases include patterns, mail server IPs and other information about spam messages recently reported by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Shared Hosting

If you order a shared hosting package from our company and if you take advantage of our email services, you will be able to activate spam filters for any of the mailboxes that you create from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel. With only a couple of clicks, you can choose between five different levels of protection. If you start getting spam, you can begin with the lowest one and then slowly increase the level until you stop getting spam. We use one of the best and most popular email filters available on the market called SpamAssassin. It checks the header and the body of each and every email message that you get and determines a spam score, based on which it either erases a given message or allows it to reach your inbox. Hepsia will also permit you to configure custom filters and either get rid of undesirable emails or redirect them to a third-party address such as spam@domain.com where you can read them again at a later time.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts provide top-level anti-spam protection guaranteed by the popular SpamAssassin filter, which sorts all incoming messages on the basis of a spam score in accordance with parameters and patterns, such as the recurrence of particular keywords and phrases, the subject, the sender, and so on. When you enable the filter for any account through the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel, you can select between 5 different security levels – from very low to very high. If you keep receiving unsolicited bulk messages, you can raise the level, or if genuine emails are tagged as spam, you can lower it. Enabling or disabling the spam protection requires as little as 2 clicks and you can choose if the filtered messages should be erased straight away or if they should be delivered to a chosen email address where you can read them at a later time, so as to make certain that valuable messages will not disappear.