A spam filter is a software app that hinders undesirable emails from entering a given mailbox. An immense percentage of the email communication around the globe consists of spam email messages: offers for pills or money, sham bank notifications, etc. That’s why, it is pretty important to set up email filters in order to avoid not only unsolicited bulk emails, but also any possibility of being conned somehow. Spam filters detect different things, so as to guarantee higher levels of security – specific words or the frequency with which they surface in the text, the sender’s address, or the IP of the sender’s outgoing SMTP mail server. Hosting companies frequently make use of the services of third-party spam-tracing organizations that offer up-to-the-minute databases to make spam filtering easier and more effective without affecting authentic messages, even if they include suspicious words or phrases.

Spam Filters in Hosting

In case you reach the decision to host your domains with us and you select any of our hosting plans, you will be able to set up anti-spam protection for any mailbox that you create. With a couple of clicks of the mouse in the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you can switch between 5 separate safety levels. In case you continue to receive spam or the email filters start preventing genuine messages from entering your mailbox, you can switch to a different level just as easily. The quality of our spam protection service is ensured by one of the most popular email filters – SpamAssassin. In case you do not want to risk skipping a genuine email that may be blocked as spam due to its content, you can also create custom filters based on the sender, the subject or the body of the message and forward the emails to another mailbox where you can review them at a later time.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you reach the decision to make use of the email service that is offered with our Linux semi-dedicated servers, you can keep all undesired messages away from your mailbox by enabling the five-level anti-spam protection service that we provide with each semi-dedicated server plan. This can be achieved via the feature-packed Email Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and we use the advanced SpamAssassin email filter to make sure that we offer the very best possible protection for our customers. You can have a different anti-spam level for each mailbox and you can select whether the filtered email messages should be erased or redirected to a separate mailbox where you can examine them at a later point in time to make sure that you will not miss legitimate email messages. Switching to some other level or disabling the anti-spam protection is also easy and takes a couple of clicks.