An email filter is a piece of software that runs on a POP3/IMAP email server and ‘scans’ all inbound messages so as to hinder any unsolicited ones from reaching a certain inbox. A few examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, false bank statements or attachments that contain malicious code sent with the idea to damage your personal computer. Spam filters usually ‘scan’ the content of an email and if they detect certain keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the message or deliver it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some hosting providers mix their own email filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-tracking organizations, so as to ensure better security for their customers. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IP addresses and other info about spam email messages recently detected by these organizations.
Spam Filters in Shared Hosting
If you get a shared hosting plan from our company and if you take advantage of our mail services, you will be able to set up anti-spam protection for any of the mailboxes that you set up from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With only several mouse clicks, you can pick between 5 different levels of safety. If you start getting spam, you can begin with the lowest one and then slowly boost the level until you stop receiving spam. We rely on one of the very best and most famous filters available on the market called SpamAssassin. It checks the header and the body of every email that you get and determines a spam score, based on which it either deletes a specific email message or allows it to reach your mailbox. Hepsia will also allow you to set up custom filters and either delete undesirable messages or send them to a 3rd-party email address like [email protected] where you can check them once again later.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you take advantage of one of our Linux semi-dedicated servers, you will not need to worry about unsolicited bulk messages stuffing your mailboxes all the time, as you can resort to the famous SpamAssassin anti-spam filter that we offer with every semi-dedicated server account. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to activate the filter for any email account with several clicks of the mouse and you can choose one of the five levels of safety – from very low to very high. The level can be altered at any moment if, for example, legitimate email messages get filtered, or if junk messages go through and reach your Inbox folder. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered emails to be re-sent to a special email account like [email protected] and not to be deleted. In this way, you can check them from time to time to make certain that you haven’t missed a genuine message.