A spam filter is a software app that’s installed on a POP3/IMAP server and ‘scans’ all incoming email messages in order to stop any unrequested ones from reaching a given mailbox. A few instances of such email messages would be: offers for pills or money, fake banking notifications or attachments that contain malicious code sent with the intention to damage your computer. Email filters typically examine the content of an email message and in case they spot given keywords or other dubious content, they either erase the message or redirect it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain web hosts mix their own email filters with up-to-date databases from spam-monitoring organizations, so as to ensure better safety for their clients. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IP addresses and other information about spam messages recently detected by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Shared Hosting

Our shared hosting servers rely on one of the best anti-spam filters available. It’s called SpamAssassin and is available with each hosting package, so if you host your domains with us, you can select one of the 5 levels of protection that the spam filter offers for any email account that you have here. You can accomplish this with just 2 mouse clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is used to manage all cloud web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin analyzes the header and the content of every message, calculates a spam score and then continues according to the level that you’ve selected. Every email account can have a different level and you can select whether the messages that the anti-spam filter labels as spam should be erased or delivered to a separate mailbox where you can read them later, so as to prevent deleting an authentic email. Switching to some other level or deactivating the anti-spam protection is also astonishingly easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you reach the decision to use the email service that comes with our Linux semi-dedicated servers, you can keep all undesired emails out of your mailbox by enabling the 5-level spam protection service that we offer with each semi-dedicated server package. This can be done through the feature-stuffed Email Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and we employ the powerful SpamAssassin email filter to make sure that we offer the best possible protection for our clients. You can have a different anti-spam level for each email account and you can select whether the filtered messages should be erased or re-sent to some other mailbox where you can review them at a later point in time to ensure that you will not miss legitimate emails. Switching to a different protection level or deactivating the spam protection is also easy and requires a couple of clicks of the mouse.