An email filter is a software app that’s installed on a POP3/IMAP server and monitors all incoming emails in order to prevent any undesirable ones from reaching a specific inbox. A few instances of such emails would be: offers for pills or cash, fake banking notices or attachments that contain malicious software sent with the intention of infecting your PC. Spam filters usually examine the content of an email message and if they spot certain keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the email or deliver it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some companies combine their own spam filters with up-to-date databases from spam-monitoring organizations, so as to guarantee better security for their clients. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IP addresses and other information about spam email messages recently reported by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Hosting

If you get a hosting plan from our company and if you use our mail services, you will be able to enable anti-spam protection for any of the mailboxes that you set up from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With no more than several clicks, you can pick between five different levels of security. In case you start getting spam, you can begin with the lowest level and then gradually increase the level until you stop getting spam. We make use of one of the best and most famous spam filters out there called SpamAssassin. It examines the header and the body of every email that you get and calculates a spam score, based on which it either erases a particular email or allows it to reach your mailbox. Hepsia will also allow you to activate custom email filters and either delete unwelcome emails or redirect them to a third-party email address such as spam@domain.com where you can examine them again at a later time.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you order a semi-dedicated server plan from our company and if you create one or more email addresses with any of the domains hosted in your account, you will be able to activate the powerful, 5-level SpamAssassin anti-spam filter that we offer and keep all unwelcome emails away from your inbox. This option is accessible through the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it can be enabled or disabled for any mailbox whenever you wish. You can also tweak the protection level with a few clicks if spam messages continue to reach your mailbox or the filter starts removing authentic messages. As you can choose whether the spam should be erased straight away or re-sent to a different mailbox, you can set up spam@domain.com, for instance, and view all filtered email messages there, so as to make certain that you won’t omit an email that you require. The email messages that the email filter allows to proceed will still be received in your mailbox.