A spam filter is a piece of software that is installed on a POP3/IMAP email server and ‘scans’ all incoming email messages in order to hinder any undesirable ones from reaching a certain mailbox. A few examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, false banking statements or email attachments that contain malicious software sent with the idea of damaging your PC. Email filters typically examine the content of an email and if they come across particular keywords or other dubious content, they either erase the email message or re-send it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some companies mix their own spam filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-tracing organizations, so as to guarantee better safety for their customers. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IPs and other information about spam emails recently uncovered by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Cloud Website Hosting

Our cloud website hosting servers use one of the very best spam filters available. It’s called SpamAssassin and is included with every shared web hosting plan, so in case you host your domains with our company, you can choose one of the 5 security levels that the filter offers for any mailbox that you have here. You can do this with only two mouse clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is used to manage all cloud web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin examines the header section and the content of each email message, gives it a spam score and then continues on the basis of the level that you’ve chosen. Every mailbox can have a different level and you can select whether the messages that the filter classifies as spam should be deleted or delivered to a separate email account where you can read them at a later time, so as to prevent erasing an authentic message. Switching to some other level or deactivating the anti-spam protection is also incredibly easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you reach the decision to make use of the email service that is offered with our Linux semi-dedicated servers, you can keep all undesirable emails out of your mailbox by activating the 5-level spam protection service that we offer with each semi-dedicated package. This can be accomplished through the feature-stuffed Email Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and we rely on the advanced SpamAssassin filter to make certain that we offer the very best possible protection for our clients. You can have a different level of protection for each mailbox and you can choose if the filtered messages should be erased or re-sent to a separate mailbox where you can review them at a later time so as to make sure that you won’t omit genuine messages. Switching to some other level of protection or disabling the anti-spam protection is also easy and takes several clicks of the mouse.