An email filter is a piece of software that is installed on a mail server and keeps track of all inbound emails so as to impede any unasked-for ones from entering a specific inbox. A few instances of such emails would be: offers for pills or cash, fake bank statements or attachments that contain malicious code sent with the idea of infecting your PC. Email filters usually ‘scan’ the content of an email message and if they detect certain keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the message or deliver it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some web hosts combine their own filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-tracing organizations, so as to ensure better safety for their clients. Such databases include patterns, email server IP addresses and other information about spam messages recently reported by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Hosting

The safety of any email account that you set up under a hosting account with our company is guaranteed by the advanced SpamAssassin filter that we employ. You can activate it through the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it comes with five safety levels based on the spam score given to each and every email message depending on different criteria, such as the frequency of given words, the sender, and so on. If you keep receiving unsolicited bulk email messages, you can always raise the level or if you are afraid that you may omit a legitimate email, you can combine the automated filter with a custom one and redirect all emails from a given sender to a different mailbox. In case you decide that you no longer need a spam filter for a given mailbox, you can deactivate it with just a couple of clicks of the mouse.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you use one of our Linux semi-dedicated servers, you will not need to worry about unsolicited bulk email messages occupying your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can make use of the popular SpamAssassin spam filter that we provide with each account. Our custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel will permit you to enable the filter for any mailbox with a couple of mouse clicks and you can choose any of the 5 safety levels – from very low to very high. The level can be altered at any moment if, for instance, genuine emails get filtered, or if unsolicited bulk messages go through and reach your inbox. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered emails to be re-sent to a special mailbox like spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. In this way, you can check them from time to time to make sure that you have not omitted a genuine message.