A spam filter is a software application that obstructs undesirable email messages from reaching a given mailbox. A significant percentage of the email traffic around the world consists of spam messages: offers for pills or cash, fake banking notifications, and so on. That’s why, it is pretty important to use filters in order to avoid not only unsolicited bulk messages, but also any possibility of being ripped off in some way. Filters detect different things, so as to provide higher levels of protection – particular words or the frequency with which they occur in the text, the sender’s email address, or the IP address of the sender’s outbound email server. Web hosting providers often make use of the services of 3rd-party spam-tracing organizations that offer up-to-date databases in order to render email filtering simpler and more efficient without affecting genuine emails, even if they contain suspicious words.

Spam Filters in Shared Hosting

Our shared hosting servers employ one of the best spam filters available on the market. It’s called SpamAssassin and is included with every shared hosting package, so if you host your domains with us, you can opt for one of the five security levels that the filter offers for any mailbox that you have here. You can do this with just two mouse clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that’s used to manage all hosting accounts. SpamAssassin checks the header field and the content of each message, calculates a spam score and then proceeds in accordance with the level that you’ve chosen. Each mailbox can have a different setting and you can choose if the email messages that the spam filter classifies as spam should be erased or forwarded to a separate email address where you can examine them at a later time, so as to avoid deleting a genuine email. Changing the level or disabling the protection is also rather easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you reach the decision to use the email service that is offered with our semi-dedicated plans, you can keep all unasked-for email messages away from your mailbox by enabling the 5-level spam protection service that we provide with each and every plan. This can be achieved through the feature-ridden Email Manager section of the Control Panel and we use the powerful SpamAssassin email filter to make certain that we provide the very best possible security for our clients. You can have a different level of protection for each email account and you can select whether the filtered messages should be deleted or forwarded to some other mailbox where you can view them at a later time in order to make sure that you are not losing legitimate messages. Switching to some other level or deactivating the protection is also easy and takes several mouse clicks.