A spam filter is a piece of software that runs on a POP3/IMAP email server and ‘scans’ all inbound email messages so as to hinder any undesirable ones from reaching a given mailbox. Several examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or cash, false banking statements or email attachments that contain malicious code sent with the idea of infecting your PC. Email filters typically examine the content of an email message and when they detect certain keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the email message or deliver it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain web hosting providers mix their own email filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to ensure better protection for their clients. Such databases include patterns, email server IP addresses and other information about spam emails recently reported by these organizations.
Spam Filters in Website Hosting
The security of any email account that you create in a website hosting account with us is ensured by the powerful SpamAssassin spam filter that we employ. You can activate it through the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it comes with five levels of protection based on the spam score given to each and every email message depending on various criteria, such as the recurrence of particular words and phrases, the sender, and so on. If you keep getting unsolicited bulk email messages, you can always raise the level or if you are afraid that you may skip an authentic message, you can mix the automatic filter with a custom one and forward all email messages from a certain sender to a different email address. If you decide that you no longer need an email filter for a given mailbox, you can disable it with just several mouse clicks.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you reach the decision to make use of the email service that is offered with our semi-dedicated servers, you can keep all unwanted emails away from your mailbox by enabling the 5-level spam protection that we provide with each and every plan. This can be done via the feature-packed Email Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and we employ the advanced SpamAssassin filter to ensure that we provide the very best possible security for our customers. You can have a different protection level for each mailbox and you can select if the filtered emails should be deleted or delivered to a different mailbox where you can read them later in order to make certain that you will not miss genuine messages. Switching to another protection level or disabling the spam protection is also easy and requires a couple of clicks.