A spam filter is a software app that hinders unwelcome messages from entering a given mailbox. A large percentage of the email correspondence around the globe involves spam email messages: offers for pills or money, fraudulent banking notifications, etc. That’s why, it is really important to use email filters in order to avoid not only unsolicited bulk emails, but also any chance of being scammed in some way. Filters detect different things, so as to ensure higher levels of safety – specific words and phrases or the frequency with which they surface in the text, the sender’s address, or the IP address of the sender’s SMTP server. Hosting companies often make use of the services of 3rd-party spam-tracing organizations that offer up-to-date databases in order to render email filtering easier and more effective without affecting legitimate messages, even if they comprise suspicious words.
Spam Filters in Cloud Website Hosting
Our cloud website hosting servers use one of the best spam filters available. It’s called SpamAssassin and is offered with each and every cloud web hosting package, so if you host your domains with us, you can opt for one of the 5 levels of protection that the filter offers for any email account that you’ve got here. You can accomplish this with only 2 mouse clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is used to manage all shared web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin checks the header and the content of every email, gives it a spam score and then proceeds based on the level that you’ve picked. Each email account can have a different level and you can select if the messages that the anti-spam filter reports as spam should be deleted or redirected to another email address where you can read them at a later point in time, so as to prevent deleting an authentic email. Switching to a different level or deactivating the anti-spam protection is also truly easy.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you take advantage of one of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting plans, you will not have to worry about unsolicited bulk messages cramming your mailboxes all the time, as you can take advantage of the famous SpamAssassin filter that we offer with each semi-dedicated hosting account. Our custom-built Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to enable the filter for any email account with a few mouse clicks and you can pick any of the five levels of security – from very low to very high. The level can be altered at any moment if, for instance, genuine messages get blocked, or if spam messages go through and reach your inbox. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered messages to be re-sent to a special mailbox like spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. In this way, you can go through them every now and then to make sure that you have not missed out on a genuine email message.