An email filter is a piece of software that is installed on a POP3/IMAP email server and ‘scans’ all incoming messages in order to stop any unsolicited ones from entering a certain inbox. A few instances of such email messages would be: offers for pills or cash, false banking notices or attachments that contain malware sent with the idea to damage your computer. Email filters typically examine the content of an email and in case they detect particular keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the message or deliver it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some web hosting providers combine their own filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to ensure higher levels of security for their customers. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IP addresses and other info about spam email messages recently reported by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Web Hosting

The security of any email account that you set up in a web hosting account with our company is guaranteed by the advanced SpamAssassin spam filter that we employ. You can enable it through the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it comes with 5 levels of safety based on the spam score given to each email message depending on different criteria, such as the recurrence of specific words and phrases, the sender, and so on. If you keep getting spam email messages, you can always increase the level or if you’re afraid that you may miss an authentic email message, you can combine the automatic filter with a custom one and redirect all email messages from a given sender to some other email account. If you reach the decision that you no longer require an email filter for a specific email account, you can disable it with only a few clicks of the mouse.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server plans provide top-level anti-spam protection ensured by the famous SpamAssassin spam filter, which classifies all inbound emails based on a spam score that depends on patterns and parameters, such as the frequency of specific keywords, the sender, the subject, and so on. When you activate the filter for any account via the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel, you can choose between 5 separate levels of safety – from very high to very low. If you keep receiving junk emails, you can increase the level, or if genuine messages are blocked as spam, you can lower it. Enabling or disabling the spam protection takes as little as 2 clicks and you can choose if the filtered messages should be erased instantly or if they should be re-sent to a designated mailbox where you can check them at a later point in time, so as to ensure that important emails will not get lost.