A spam filter is a piece of software that is installed on a POP3/IMAP server and keeps track of all inbound messages to stop any unwelcome ones from entering a given mailbox. A few instances of such emails would be: offers for pills or cash, false banking notifications or email attachments that contain malicious software sent with the idea of infecting your PC. Spam filters typically check the content of an email and if they detect specific keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the email or redirect it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some web hosting companies combine their own email filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to ensure higher levels of safety for their customers. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IP addresses and other info about spam messages recently detected by these organizations.
Spam Filters in Cloud Hosting
The safety of any email account that you create under a cloud hosting account with our company is guaranteed by the powerful SpamAssassin filter that we employ. You can activate it via the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it offers 5 levels of protection based on the spam score given to every message depending on various parameters, such as the frequency of given words and phrases, the sender, and so on. If you keep getting unsolicited bulk messages, you can always raise the level or if you are scared that you may miss an authentic email, you can mix the automated filter with a custom one and redirect all email messages from a specific sender to some other email address. In case you reach the decision that you no longer require anti-spam protection for a certain mailbox, you can disable it with no more than several clicks of the mouse.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you get a semi-dedicated server plan from our company and if you set up one or more email addresses with any of the domains hosted under your account, you will be able to enable the advanced, five-level SpamAssassin spam filter that we offer and keep all undesired email messages away from your inbox. This option is accessible through the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and it can be activated or deactivated for any mailbox whenever you like. You can also adjust the protection level with several clicks of the mouse in case spam email messages still appear in your mailbox or the anti-spam filter starts deleting authentic email messages. Since you can choose whether the spam should be erased immediately or re-sent to another mailbox, you can create spam@domain.com, for example, and view all filtered emails there, so as to ensure that you won’t miss a message that you require. The email messages that the filter permits to go through will still be received in your inbox.