A spam filter is a software app that stops unasked-for emails from entering a given mailbox. A huge percentage of the email traffic around the world consists of spam emails: offers for pills or money, false bank notifications, etc. That is why, it is quite important to use email filters to avoid not only unsolicited bulk emails, but also any possibility of being scammed in some way. Spam filters detect various things, so as to provide better security – particular words or the frequency with which they appear in the text, the sender’s email address, or the IP of the sender’s outbound SMTP email server. Web hosting companies frequently rely on the services of third-party spam-monitoring organizations that offer up-to-date databases to render spam filtering easier and more effective without affecting legitimate messages, even if they contain suspicious words.

Spam Filters in Cloud Web Hosting

Our cloud web hosting servers employ one of the very best spam filters available. It is called SpamAssassin and is available with every cloud hosting package, so in case you host your domains with our company, you can choose one of the 5 security levels that the spam filter offers for any email account that you’ve got here. You can do this with only two clicks of the mouse from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to manage all hosting accounts. SpamAssassin examines the header section and the content of every email message, gives it a spam score and then proceeds according to the level that you have opted for. Each mailbox can have a different level and you can choose whether the emails that the anti-spam filter considers as spam should be erased or re-sent to a different email account where you can check them later, so as to avoid erasing an authentic email. Changing the level or disabling the protection is also amazingly easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you use one of our Linux semi-dedicated plans, you won’t have to worry about spam email messages clogging your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can make use of the famous SpamAssassin filter that we provide with every semi-dedicated hosting account. Our custom-created Hepsia hosting Control Panel will permit you to enable the filter for any mailbox with a few clicks and you can choose one of the 5 protection levels – from very low to very high. The level can be changed at any time if, for example, authentic messages get filtered, or if spam email messages go through and reach your Inbox folder. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered emails to be redirected to a special mailbox such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. In this way, you can check them every now and then to ensure that you have not omitted a legitimate message.