An email filter is a piece of software that is installed on a POP3/IMAP server and ‘scans’ all incoming messages in order to obstruct any undesired ones from reaching a certain mailbox. Several examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or cash, fake bank notifications or email attachments that contain malicious code sent with the idea to damage your PC. Email filters normally check the content of an email and in case they spot some keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the message or deliver it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some hosting providers mix their own spam filters with up-to-date databases from spam-tracing organizations, so as to guarantee higher levels of safety for their customers. Such databases include patterns, mail server IP addresses and other information about spam email messages recently detected by these organizations.
Spam Filters in Hosting
Our hosting servers rely on one of the best spam filters available on the market. It is called SpamAssassin and is available with each shared hosting package, so in case you host your domain names with us, you can pick one of the five levels of safety that the spam filter offers for any mailbox that you’ve got here. You can accomplish this with only 2 clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to manage all shared web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin ‘scans’ the header field and the body of every message, calculates a spam score and then continues based on the level that you’ve picked. Every email account can have a different level and you can choose whether the email messages that the filter marks as spam should be deleted or delivered to a separate email address where you can view them at a later time, so as to avoid deleting a genuine email message. Switching to some other level or disabling the anti-spam protection is also exceptionally easy.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you take advantage of one of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, you will not have to worry about unsolicited bulk emails cramming your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can resort to the popular SpamAssassin filter that we provide with each and every semi-dedicated hosting account. Our custom-created Hepsia hosting Control Panel will allow you to activate the filter for any mailbox with several clicks and you can choose any of the five safety levels – from very high to very low. The level can be altered at any moment if, for instance, genuine email messages get filtered, or if spam emails go through and reach your inbox. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered email messages to be delivered to a special email account such as [email protected] and not to be deleted. Thus, you can go through them every now and then to make certain that you haven’t missed an authentic email message.