A spam filter is a software app that runs on a POP3/IMAP mail server and ‘scans’ all incoming emails to block any unwanted ones from entering a certain inbox. Several instances of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, fraudulent banking notifications or attachments that contain malicious software sent with the intention to infect your PC. Email filters usually ‘scan’ the content of an email and in case they detect particular keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the email or redirect it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some hosting companies combine their own email filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-tracking organizations, so as to ensure higher levels of security for their clients. Such databases contain patterns, email server IPs and other information about spam emails recently detected by these organizations.
Spam Filters in Hosting
The protection of any mailbox that you set up under a hosting account with our company is guaranteed by the powerful SpamAssassin email filter that we use. You can activate it via the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel and it offers five safety levels based on the spam score given to every email message in accordance with various criteria, such as the frequency of particular words, the sender, etc. If you keep receiving unsolicited bulk email messages, you can always raise the level or if you’re afraid that you may miss a legitimate email, you can mix the automated email filter with a custom one and forward all messages from a particular sender to some other email address. In case you reach the decision that you no longer want an email filter for a given email account, you can disable it with no more than a couple of clicks.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you use one of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting services, you will not have to worry about junk messages stuffing your mailboxes all the time, as you can take advantage of the popular SpamAssassin filter that we provide with every semi-dedicated account. Our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel will permit you to enable the filter for any email account with several mouse clicks and you can pick one of the five levels of security – from very low to very high. The level can be changed at any time if, for example, legitimate messages get blocked, or if unsolicited bulk email messages go through and reach your inbox. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered messages to be delivered to a special email account like spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. Thus, you can examine them every now and then to make certain that you have not missed a legitimate email.