An email filter is a software application that’s installed on an email server and ‘scans’ all incoming email messages in order to obstruct any unwanted ones from reaching a specific mailbox. Several examples of such email messages would be: offers for pills or cash, false bank notifications or email attachments that contain malware sent with the intention to damage your PC. Spam filters typically ‘scan’ the content of an email message and in case they detect specific keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the email or re-send it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain web hosting providers mix their own filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-tracing organizations, so as to guarantee better protection for their customers. Such databases include patterns, mail server IP addresses and other information about spam email messages recently reported by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Website Hosting

The safety of any email account that you create in a website hosting account with us is ensured by the powerful SpamAssassin filter that we employ. You can activate it via the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel and it offers five protection levels based on the spam score it gives to each email message depending on various parameters, such as the frequency of given words and phrases, the sender, and so on. If you keep getting junk emails, you can always increase the level or if you are scared that you may miss a genuine email message, you can combine the automatic filter with a custom one and forward all emails from a certain sender to a different email address. In case you reach the decision that you no longer need a spam filter for a specific email account, you can disable it with just a few clicks of the mouse.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you take advantage of one of our semi-dedicated servers, you won’t need to worry about junk messages filling up your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can resort to the popular SpamAssassin email filter that we offer with each semi-dedicated account. Our in-house created Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to activate the filter for any email account with several clicks and you can choose any of the five security levels – from very high to very low. The level can be changed at any moment if, for instance, genuine email messages get blocked, or if junk messages go through and reach your Inbox folder. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered email messages to be delivered to a special mailbox like spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. In this way, you can go through them from time to time to ensure that you have not missed out on an authentic email message.