An email filter is an app that hinders undesirable email messages from entering a particular mailbox. A huge percentage of the email correspondence around the globe consists of spam emails: offers for pills or money, sham banking notifications, etc. Because of this, it is rather important to use filters to avoid not only unsolicited bulk emails, but also any possibility of being scammed in some way. Email filters detect various things, so as to guarantee higher levels of protection – specific words and phrases or the frequency with which they occur in the text, the sender’s address, or the IP of the sender’s SMTP server. Hosting companies often resort to the services of 3rd-party spam-monitoring organizations that offer up-to-the-minute databases to make email filtering easier and more effective without affecting legitimate emails, even if they include suspicious words.

Spam Filters in Cloud Website Hosting

If you order a cloud website hosting plan from us and if you take advantage of our mail services, you’ll be able to set up anti-spam protection for any of the email accounts that you set up from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just a couple of mouse clicks, you can select between five separate security levels. If you start getting spam, you can start with the lowest level and then slowly raise the level until you stop receiving spam. We make use of one of the best and most famous filters available called SpamAssassin. It checks the header field and the body of each email message that you get and calculates a spam score, based on which it either deletes a given email message or allows it to enter your mailbox. The Hepsia Control Panel will also permit you to set up custom filters and either eliminate unwelcome messages or re-send them to a third-party email address like spam@domain.com where you can view them once again after that.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you take advantage of one of our semi-dedicated service, you won’t have to worry about spam messages filling up your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can resort to the popular SpamAssassin email filter that we provide with each semi-dedicated server account. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to enable the filter for any email account with a few clicks of the mouse and you can select one of the 5 levels of safety – from very low to very high. The level can be changed at any moment if, for instance, authentic messages get filtered, or if junk email messages go through and reach your inbox. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered messages to be forwarded to a special mailbox like spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. In this way, you can check them every now and then to ensure that you have not omitted an authentic message.