A spam filter is a software app that’s installed on a POP3/IMAP server and monitors all incoming messages in order to obstruct any unwanted ones from reaching a specific mailbox. Several examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, false bank notifications or attachments that contain malicious software sent with the idea to damage your PC. Email filters typically examine the content of an email and when they come across some keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the email or re-send it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain hosting companies combine their own filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-tracing organizations, so as to ensure better protection for their customers. Such databases include patterns, mail server IPs and other info about spam emails recently uncovered by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Shared Website Hosting

The security of any mailbox that you create under a shared website hosting account with us is guaranteed by the powerful SpamAssassin email filter that we employ. You can enable it via the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel and it comes with 5 levels of security based on the spam score given to each and every email depending on different criteria, such as the frequency of specific words and phrases, the sender, etc. If you keep receiving spam, you can always increase the level or if you are scared that you may omit a legitimate message, you can combine the automated spam filter with a custom one and redirect all email messages from a given sender to another email account. In case you reach the decision that you no longer require an email filter for a given mailbox, you can disable it with no more than several clicks.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you get a semi-dedicated server package from our company and if you set up one or more email accounts with any of the domain names hosted in the account, you’ll be able to enable the advanced, five-level SpamAssassin email filter that we offer and keep all unwanted email messages out of your mailbox. This option is accessible through the Hepsia Control Panel’s Email Manager section and it can be activated or deactivated for any mailbox whenever you want. You can also configure the level of safety with a couple of clicks in case junk emails still enter your inbox or the spam filter begins deleting genuine messages. Since you can select if the spam should be erased instantaneously or forwarded to a different email account, you can create spam@domain.com, for instance, and view all filtered messages there, so as to make sure that you won’t miss an email that you need. The messages that the filter permits to go through will still be received in your mailbox.