A spam filter is a software application that’s installed on a POP3/IMAP mail server and monitors all inbound messages in order to obstruct any unwelcome ones from entering a given inbox. A few examples of such email messages would be: offers for pills or money, false bank notices or email attachments that contain malware sent with the idea of damaging your computer. Email filters normally examine the content of an email and when they spot particular keywords or other dubious content, they either erase the email or deliver it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain web hosting companies combine their own filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-monitoring organizations, so as to guarantee higher levels of protection for their clients. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IPs and other information about spam messages recently uncovered by these organizations.
Spam Filters in Hosting
If you decide to host your domains with us and you select any of our Linux hosting, you’ll be able to activate spam filtering for any mailbox that you create. With a few clicks of the mouse in the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel, you can switch between 5 separate levels of safety. If you still get spam email messages or the spam filters start preventing legitimate email messages from reaching your mailbox, you can switch to a different level just as easily. The quality of our spam filtering service is guaranteed by one of the most famous filters – SpamAssassin. If you do not want to risk omitting an authentic email that may be regarded as spam due to its content, you can also configure custom spam filters based on the body, the subject or the sender of the message and redirect the emails to a different email account where you can review them at a later point in time.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you use one of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, you won’t have to worry about junk email messages occupying your mailboxes all the time, as you can resort to the famous SpamAssassin email filter that we provide with every account. Our custom-built Hepsia hosting Control Panel will allow you to activate the filter for any email account with a couple of clicks of the mouse and you can select one of the five levels of protection – from very low to very high. The level can be altered at any time if, for instance, genuine emails get blocked, or if unsolicited bulk email messages go through and reach your inbox. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered messages to be delivered to a special mailbox such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. Thus, you can go through them every now and then to make certain that you haven’t missed out on an authentic email.