A spam filter is an application that impedes unsolicited email messages from reaching a particular mailbox. A substantial percentage of the email traffic around the world is composed of spam messages: offers for pills or cash, fake banking notifications, etc. That’s why, it’s pretty important to enable email filters to avoid not only unsolicited bulk emails, but also any chance of being duped somehow. Email filters detect various things, so as to deliver higher levels of security – specific words or the frequency with which they surface in the text, the sender’s address, or the IP address of the sender’s outbound SMTP server. Web hosts frequently rely on the services of third-party spam-tracking organizations that offer up-to-the-minute databases in order to render email filtering easier and more effective without affecting genuine emails, even if they comprise suspicious words or phrases.
Spam Filters in Shared Website Hosting
If you order a shared website hosting package from us and if you use our mail services, you’ll be able to enable spam filters for any of the email accounts that you set up from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel. With only a few clicks, you can pick between five separate levels of security. If you start receiving spam, you can start with the lowest one and then slowly increase the level till you stop receiving spam. We make use of one of the best and most popular filters available called SpamAssassin. It analyzes the header field and the body of each email message that you receive and determines a spam score, based on which it either erases a particular email message or allows it to reach your mailbox. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel will also permit you to configure custom filters and either erase undesired email messages or send them to a 3rd-party address like spam@domain.com where you can examine them again afterwards.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you use one of our semi-dedicated servers, you will not have to worry about spam email messages occupying your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can make use of the famous SpamAssassin filter that we offer with each account. Our custom-developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel will allow you to activate the filter for any email account with several mouse clicks and you can pick any of the 5 safety levels – from very low to very high. The level can be altered at any moment if, for example, genuine messages get blocked, or if spam emails go through and reach your inbox. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered messages to be delivered to a special mailbox like spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. In this way, you can check them from time to time to make certain that you have not missed a legitimate email.