A spam filter is a piece of software that runs on a mail server and ‘scans’ all inbound messages so as to stop any unrequested ones from reaching a given inbox. A few examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, fraudulent banking notices or email attachments that contain malware sent with the intention of infecting your computer. Email filters usually ‘scan’ the content of an email and if they detect some keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the email message or forward it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some web hosts mix their own filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-tracing organizations, so as to ensure higher levels of security for their clients. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IPs and other information about spam emails recently detected by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Cloud Hosting

In case you reach the decision to host your domains with our company and you pick any of our cloud hosting, you will be able to activate spam filtering for any email address that you set up. With a couple of clicks in the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you can set up five different levels of security. If you continue to get junk email messages or the spam filters start preventing genuine messages from reaching your inbox, you can change the level just as easily. The quality of our spam detection solution is guaranteed by one of the most widely used filters – SpamAssassin. If you don’t want to risk omitting a genuine email message that may be regarded as spam owing to its content, you can also set up custom spam filters based on the body, the sender or the subject of the message and forward the emails to another mailbox where you can examine them later.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you take advantage of one of our semi-dedicated packages, you will not have to worry about spam messages occupying your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can resort to the popular SpamAssassin spam filter that we offer with every semi-dedicated server account. Our custom-developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel will allow you to activate the filter for any mailbox with a few clicks of the mouse and you can choose any of the 5 safety levels – from very high to very low. The level can be altered at any time if, for instance, legitimate emails get blocked, or if junk email 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 email account such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. In this way, you can check them every now and then to make sure that you have not omitted an authentic message.