An email filter is a piece of software that runs on a POP3/IMAP email server and ‘scans’ all incoming emails in order to obstruct any unwelcome ones from reaching a given mailbox. A few examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, false bank notices or attachments that contain malicious software sent with the intention of infecting your PC. Spam filters normally check the content of an email and in case they detect given keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the email or forward it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some hosting companies mix their own filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-monitoring organizations, so as to guarantee higher levels of protection for their clients. Such databases contain patterns, email server IPs and other information about spam emails recently reported by these organizations.
Spam Filters in Hosting
If you get a hosting package from our company and if you take advantage of our mail services, you’ll be able to activate spam filtering for any of the mailboxes that you create from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel. With only several mouse clicks, you can select between 5 different safety levels. In case you start receiving spam, you can begin with the lowest one and then slowly increase the level until you stop receiving spam. We rely on one of the very best and most famous filters available on the market called SpamAssassin. It examines the header and the body of each and every email that you get and calculates a spam score, based on which it either deletes a particular message or permits it to reach your inbox. Hepsia will also allow you to set up custom filters and either delete unsolicited emails or re-send them to a third-party email address like spam@domain.com where you can examine them once more at a later time.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you get a semi-dedicated server package from our company and if you create one or more mailboxes with any of the domain names hosted in the account, you will be able to enable the advanced, five-level SpamAssassin filter that we offer and keep all undesirable email messages out of your inbox. This functionality is accessible through the Hepsia Control Panel’s Email Manager section and it can be enabled or disabled for any mailbox whenever you want. You can also fine-tune the level of protection with several clicks of the mouse in case spam messages still enter your inbox or the anti-spam filter begins removing genuine emails. Since you can select whether the spam should be erased momentarily or delivered to a different email account, you can create spam@domain.com, for instance, and view all filtered messages there, so as to ensure that you won’t miss an email message that you require. The email messages that the spam filter allows to go through will still be delivered to your mailbox.