A spam filter is a software application that stops unwelcome email messages from entering a particular mailbox. An immense percentage of the email traffic around the globe consists of spam messages: offers for pills or cash, sham bank notifications, and so on. That’s why, it is extremely important to enable filters to avoid not only spam messages, but also any chance of being scammed somehow. Filters detect various things, so as to deliver higher levels of security – specific words and phrases or the frequency with which they occur in the text, the sender’s email address, or the IP address of the sender’s email server. Web hosting providers frequently resort to the services of third-party spam-tracing organizations that provide up-to-the-minute databases in order to render spam filtering easier and more efficient without affecting authentic emails, even if they comprise suspicious words or phrases.

Spam Filters in Cloud Hosting

Our cloud hosting servers use one of the very best spam filters out there. It is called SpamAssassin and is available with every cloud hosting plan, so in case you host your domains with our company, you can opt for one of the five levels of safety that the anti-spam filter offers for any email account that you’ve got here. You can do this with only 2 mouse clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to manage all cloud hosting accounts. SpamAssassin ‘scans’ the header and the body of each message, calculates a spam score and then proceeds based on the level that you’ve selected. Each mailbox can have a different level and you can choose whether the emails that the filter reports as spam should be deleted or forwarded to another email address where you can examine them at a later point in time, so as to prevent erasing a genuine email. Changing the level or deactivating the anti-spam protection is also really easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you use a semi-dedicated server plan from our company and if you create one or more email addresses with any of the domains hosted in the account, you’ll be able to activate the powerful, five-level SpamAssassin email filter that we offer and keep all unwanted emails away from your inbox. This feature is accessible through the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and it can be activated or deactivated for any email account whenever you want. You can also configure the protection level with several clicks in case unsolicited bulk email messages continue to reach your mailbox or the spam filter begins deleting genuine emails. As you can select whether the spam should be deleted momentarily or redirected to a separate mailbox, you can create spam@domain.com, for example, and view all filtered messages there, so as to make certain that you will not miss an email message that you need. The messages that the anti-spam filter permits to proceed will still appear in your mailbox.