A spam filter is a software app that runs on a mail server and keeps track of all inbound emails to block any undesirable ones from entering a certain mailbox. A few examples of such email messages would be: offers for pills or money, fraudulent banking notifications or email attachments that contain malware sent with the intention to damage your computer. Spam filters usually ‘scan’ the content of an email message and if they spot particular keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the message or deliver it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some web hosting providers mix their own spam filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-tracing organizations, so as to guarantee higher levels of safety for their customers. Such databases include patterns, email server IPs and other information about spam messages recently reported by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Hosting

The safety of any mailbox that you set up under a hosting account with our company is guaranteed by the advanced SpamAssassin filter that we use. You can enable it through the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel and it comes with 5 levels of security based on the spam score it gives to each and every email in accordance with different criteria, such as the recurrence of particular words and phrases, the sender, etc. If you keep receiving spam emails, you can always raise the level or if you are afraid that you may miss a legitimate email, you can mix the automatic spam filter with a custom one and redirect all messages from a given sender to some other email address. In case you reach the decision that you no longer need an email filter for a given email account, you can disable it with just several clicks of the mouse.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you take advantage of one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, you won’t need to worry about unsolicited bulk messages filling up your mailboxes all the time, as you can make use of the popular SpamAssassin filter that we offer with each and every account. Our custom-created Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to activate the filter for any mailbox with several clicks and you can choose any of the five levels of protection – from very low to very high. The level can be altered at any time if, for example, genuine email messages get filtered, or if junk emails go through and reach your Inbox folder. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered emails to be re-sent to a special mailbox like spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. In this way, you can examine them every now and then to make sure that you have not omitted a legitimate message.