An email filter is a software application that’s installed on a POP3/IMAP mail server and ‘scans’ all incoming emails to block any unrequested ones from reaching a given inbox. Several instances of such emails would be: offers for pills or cash, false banking statements or email attachments that contain malicious code sent with the idea of infecting your computer. Spam filters typically examine the content of an email and if they spot some keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the message or forward it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some web hosts combine their own email filters with up-to-date databases from spam-monitoring organizations, so as to ensure higher levels of security for their customers. Such databases include patterns, email server IPs and other info about spam emails recently reported by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Cloud Website Hosting

The safety of any mailbox that you set up under a cloud website hosting account with us is guaranteed by the advanced SpamAssassin spam filter that we use. You can enable it via the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it comes with five levels of safety based on the spam score given to each and every email message depending on various parameters, such as the frequency of certain words and phrases, the sender, and so on. If you keep getting junk email messages, you can always raise the level or if you’re scared that you may omit an authentic message, you can mix the automatic filter with a custom one and redirect all emails from a given sender to a separate email account. In case you decide that you no longer need an email filter for a certain email account, you can disable it with no more than a couple of clicks.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you use a semi-dedicated server package from our company and if you set up one or more email addresses with any of the domain names hosted under the account, you’ll be able to activate the advanced, 5-level SpamAssassin spam filter that we offer and keep all undesired email messages away from your inbox. This feature is accessible through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel’s Email Manager section and it can be activated or deactivated for any email account at any time. You can also change the level of safety with several mouse clicks if spam messages continue to reach your inbox or the email filter starts erasing legitimate messages. Since you can select if the spam should be deleted right away or forwarded to a different email account, you can set up spam@domain.com, for instance, and check all filtered email messages there, so as to ensure that you will not miss an email message that you require. The email messages that the email filter permits to proceed will still appear in your mailbox.