A spam filter is a software application that runs on a POP3/IMAP server and monitors all inbound email messages to impede any undesired ones from reaching a specific inbox. Several examples of such email messages would be: offers for pills or money, fake banking notices or attachments that contain malicious software sent with the intention of infecting your PC. Spam filters typically examine the content of an email message and if they detect given keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the email message or deliver it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some companies mix their own filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to ensure higher levels of protection for their customers. Such databases contain patterns, email server IP addresses and other info about spam email messages recently uncovered by these organizations.
Spam Filters in Shared Hosting
If you order a shared hosting plan from our company and if you take advantage of our mail services, you’ll be able to set up spam filtering for any of the mailboxes that you create from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel. With just several clicks, you can choose between five different security levels. If you start getting spam, you can begin with the lowest one and then gradually raise the level until you stop getting spam. We use one of the best and most popular email filters available called SpamAssassin. It checks the header field and the body of each and every email message that you get and determines a spam score, based on which it either deletes a given email or allows it to enter your mailbox. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel will also permit you to configure custom spam filters and either get rid of unwelcome emails or send them to a third-party email address like spam@domain.com where you can examine them once more later.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you use one of our semi-dedicated hosting service, you will not need to worry about spam emails stuffing your mailboxes all the time, as you can take advantage of the famous SpamAssassin anti-spam filter that we provide with each and every semi-dedicated hosting account. Our in-house developed Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to enable the filter for any mailbox with a few clicks of the mouse and you can select one of the 5 levels of security – from very low to very high. The level can be changed at any moment if, for instance, genuine email messages get blocked, or if spam messages go through and reach your Inbox folder. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered messages to be redirected to a special email account such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. In this way, you can check them every now and then to make certain that you haven’t missed a legitimate message.