A spam filter is a piece of software that runs on a POP3/IMAP mail server and ‘scans’ all inbound emails so as to prevent any unrequested ones from reaching a certain inbox. Several instances of such email messages would be: offers for pills or cash, false banking notifications or email attachments that contain malicious software sent with the intention to infect your computer. Email filters usually check the content of an email and when they come across certain keywords or other dubious content, they either erase the email or forward it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some web hosting companies combine their own spam filters with up-to-date databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to guarantee higher levels of security for their customers. Such databases include patterns, email server IP addresses and other info about spam email messages recently reported by these organizations.
Spam Filters in Cloud Hosting
Our cloud hosting servers rely on one of the very best anti-spam filters available on the market. It is called SpamAssassin and is available with each shared web hosting package, so if you host your domains with our company, you can pick one of the 5 protection levels that the filter offers for any mailbox that you’ve got here. You can accomplish this with only two mouse clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to manage all cloud web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin examines the header section and the content of each and every email message, gives it a spam score and then continues on the basis of the level that you have chosen. Every email account can have a different setting and you can choose whether the messages that the spam filter reports as spam should be erased or re-sent to a separate mailbox where you can view them at a later time, so as to avoid erasing a legitimate email. Changing the level or disabling the anti-spam protection is also surprisingly easy.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our semi-dedicated server plans offer first-rate anti-spam protection guaranteed by the famous SpamAssassin email filter, which rates all inbound emails on the basis of a spam score in accordance with parameters and patterns, such as the recurrence of particular keywords, the sender, the subject, and so on. When you activate the filter for any mailbox via the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel, you can choose between 5 different levels of safety – from very low to very high. If you still receive junk email messages, you can increase the level, or if legitimate email messages are tagged as spam, you can decrease it. Activating or deactivating the spam protection takes as little as 2 clicks of the mouse and you can choose if the filtered email messages should be deleted instantaneously or if they should be redirected to a chosen mailbox where you can read them at a later point in time, so as to ensure that the emails that you need won’t get lost.