A spam filter is a piece of software that runs on a POP3/IMAP mail server and keeps track of all incoming emails in order to obstruct any unrequested ones from reaching a certain mailbox. A few instances of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, false banking notices or email attachments that contain malicious code sent with the idea to infect your personal computer. Email filters usually ‘scan’ the content of an email message and if they spot particular keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the email message or redirect it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain hosting companies combine their own filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-monitoring organizations, so as to guarantee better security for their clients. Such databases include patterns, mail server IPs and other information about spam email messages recently revealed by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Website Hosting

The security of any mailbox that you create in a website hosting account with our company is ensured by the powerful SpamAssassin spam filter that we employ. You can enable it via the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel and it offers 5 security levels based on the spam score given to every message in accordance with different criteria, such as the frequency of given words and phrases, the sender, etc. If you keep getting spam, you can always raise the level or if you’re scared that you may skip a legitimate message, you can mix the automatic email filter with a custom one and redirect all emails from a specific sender to another email address. If you decide that you no longer need an email filter for a certain mailbox, you can disable it with no more than a few clicks of the mouse.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you take advantage of one of our semi-dedicated servers, you will not have to worry about spam messages clogging your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can resort to the popular SpamAssassin filter that we provide with each and every account. Our custom Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to enable the filter for any email account with a couple of clicks and you can choose one of the five safety levels – from very low to very high. The level can be altered at any moment if, for example, legitimate email messages get filtered, or if spam 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 email account like spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. Thus, you can go through them from time to time to make certain that you have not missed a genuine message.