An email filter is a software app that is installed on a POP3/IMAP email server and ‘scans’ all incoming emails to impede any unwelcome ones from reaching a given mailbox. A few examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, false banking notifications or email attachments that contain malicious code sent with the idea to infect your personal computer. Email filters normally examine the content of an email and if they come across some keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the email or deliver it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some companies mix their own email filters with up-to-date databases from spam-monitoring organizations, so as to guarantee higher levels of protection for their customers. Such databases contain patterns, email server IPs and other information about spam email messages recently detected by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Hosting

Our hosting servers use one of the very best anti-spam filters available. It’s called SpamAssassin and is available with each hosting plan, so if you host your domains with us, you can select one of the 5 protection levels that the anti-spam filter offers for any email account that you have here. You can do this with only two clicks of the mouse from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that’s used to manage all web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin analyzes the header field and the content of each email, gives it a spam score and then continues on the basis of the level that you have opted for. Each email account can have a different level and you can select if the emails that the spam filter labels as spam should be erased or delivered to another email account where you can read them at a later point in time, so as to avoid erasing a genuine message. Switching to a different level or disabling the spam protection is also quite easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you reach the decision to use the mail service that comes with our Linux semi-dedicated packages, you can keep all unsolicited messages away from your inbox by activating the 5-level anti-spam protection that we provide with every semi-dedicated hosting package. This can be accomplished via the full-featured Email Manager section of the Control Panel and we use the advanced SpamAssassin spam filter to make certain that we offer the very best possible protection for our clients. You can have a different anti-spam level for each mailbox and you can select if the filtered emails should be deleted or re-sent to a different mailbox where you can examine them later so as to ensure that you will not miss genuine messages. Changing the protection level or disabling the protection is also easy and takes a few clicks.