An email filter is a software application that is installed on a POP3/IMAP server and keeps track of all incoming email messages in order to block any unwanted ones from reaching a particular inbox. A few examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, fake bank notices or attachments that contain malicious code sent with the intention of infecting your PC. Email filters usually ‘scan’ the content of an email message and when they spot specific keywords or other dubious content, they either erase the message or forward it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain web hosts mix their own filters with up-to-date databases from spam-tracing organizations, so as to ensure better protection for their customers. Such databases contain patterns, email server IPs and other info about spam messages recently detected by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Cloud Hosting

The security of any mailbox that you create in a cloud hosting account with us is ensured by the advanced SpamAssassin email filter that we use. You can enable it via the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel and it offers 5 security levels based on the spam score it gives to each and every message in accordance with different parameters, such as the frequency of specific words and phrases, the sender, and so on. If you keep getting spam messages, you can always increase the level or if you are scared that you may miss an authentic message, you can combine the automated filter with a custom one and forward all messages from a specific sender to a different email account. If you decide that you no longer require a spam filter for a given email account, you can disable it with no more than a few mouse clicks.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you reach the decision to use the email service that comes with our Linux semi-dedicated packages, you can keep all unasked-for messages out of your mailbox by activating the 5-level anti-spam protection that we provide with each semi-dedicated hosting package. This can be done through the fully featured Email Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and we use the powerful SpamAssassin spam filter to ensure that we provide the best possible security for our customers. You can have a different level of protection for each email account and you can select if the filtered emails should be erased or re-sent to a separate email address where you can view them at a later point in time in order to make sure that you will not omit genuine messages. Switching to some other level of protection or deactivating the anti-spam protection is also easy and takes a couple of mouse clicks.