A spam filter is a piece of software that runs on an email server and keeps track of all inbound messages so as to obstruct any undesired ones from reaching a certain mailbox. Several instances of such email messages would be: offers for pills or cash, fake bank notices or email attachments that contain malicious code sent with the idea to infect your personal computer. Spam filters usually examine the content of an email message and in case they detect specific keywords or other suspicious content, they either erase the message or redirect it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain companies mix their own spam filters with up-to-date databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to ensure higher levels of protection for their clients. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IPs and other information about spam messages recently detected by these organizations.
Spam Filters in Web Hosting
Our web hosting servers rely on one of the best spam filters available. It is called SpamAssassin and is offered with each cloud hosting plan, so if you host your domain names with us, you can choose one of the 5 levels of protection that the filter offers for any email account that you have here. You can accomplish this with just 2 clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to manage all hosting accounts. SpamAssassin checks the header and the content of each and every email, calculates a spam score and then continues according to the level that you’ve opted for. Every mailbox can have a different setting and you can select if the emails that the filter flags as spam should be deleted or redirected to some other mailbox where you can check them later, so as to prevent erasing a legitimate email. Switching to another level or disabling the anti-spam protection is also remarkably easy.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you reach the decision to use the mail service that is offered with our semi-dedicated servers, you can keep all undesired email messages out of your mailbox by enabling the five-level spam protection that we provide with each and every package. This can be done through the feature-packed Email Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and we employ the advanced SpamAssassin email filter to make sure that we provide the very best possible protection for our clients. You can have a different protection level for each mailbox and you can select if the filtered emails should be deleted or re-sent to a different email address where you can examine them at a later point in time in order to ensure that you will not omit authentic email messages. Switching to some other level or disabling the anti-spam protection is also easy and requires a couple of mouse clicks.