A spam filter is an application that blocks unasked-for messages from entering a given inbox. A huge percentage of the email correspondence around the world consists of spam email messages: offers for pills or money, fake bank notifications, etc. That is why, it’s rather important to activate email filters to avoid not only unsolicited bulk email messages, but also any possibility of being swindled somehow. Spam filters detect different things, so as to ensure higher levels of protection – particular words and phrases or the frequency with which they surface in the text, the sender’s email address, or the IP of the sender’s outbound mail server. Web hosts frequently resort to the services of 3rd-party spam-detecting organizations that provide up-to-the-minute databases to make email filtering better and easier without affecting legitimate messages, even if they comprise suspicious words.
Spam Filters in Shared Hosting
The protection of any mailbox that you set up in a shared hosting account with us is guaranteed by the advanced SpamAssassin filter that we employ. You can enable it through the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel and it comes with five levels of safety based on the spam score given to every message depending on different parameters, such as the recurrence of specific words and phrases, the sender, etc. If you keep getting unsolicited bulk email messages, you can always raise the level or if you’re afraid that you may skip an authentic email, you can combine the automated filter with a custom one and forward all email messages from a given sender to a different mailbox. In case you reach the decision that you no longer require anti-spam protection for a certain mailbox, you can deactivate it with just a couple of mouse clicks.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you take advantage of one of our semi-dedicated servers, you won’t have to worry about unsolicited bulk email messages cramming your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can make use of the famous SpamAssassin email filter that we offer with every account. Our in-house created Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to enable the filter for any email account with several mouse clicks and you can pick one of the 5 protection levels – from very low to very high. The level can be altered at any moment if, for example, legitimate messages get filtered, or if unsolicited bulk email messages go through and appear in your Inbox folder. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered email messages to be re-sent to a special email account such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. Thus, you can check them from time to time to make certain that you have not missed a legitimate email.