An email filter is a software app that obstructs unwanted emails from reaching a particular mailbox. A significant percentage of the email communication around the world consists of spam emails: offers for pills or money, fake bank notifications, etc. Because of this, it is pretty important to activate filters to avoid not only spam emails, but also any possibility of being scammed in some way. Filters detect various things, so as to provide higher levels of security – specific words or the frequency with which they occur in the text, the sender’s address, or the IP address of the sender’s outbound SMTP email server. Web hosting providers often use the services of 3rd-party spam-monitoring organizations that offer up-to-date databases to make email filtering better and easier without affecting authentic emails, even if they contain suspicious words or phrases.

Spam Filters in Shared Hosting

If you order a shared hosting plan from our company and if you make use of our mail services, you will be able to set up spam filters for any of the email accounts that you set up from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel. With only several clicks of the mouse, you can choose between five separate levels of protection. If you start receiving spam, you can begin with the lowest level and then slowly raise the level till you stop receiving spam. We rely on one of the very best and most famous email filters available on the market called SpamAssassin. It ‘scans’ the header and the body of each and every message that you receive and calculates a spam score, based on which it either erases a certain email or allows it to reach your inbox. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel will also permit you to create custom spam filters and either erase unsolicited emails or send them to a third-party email address like spam@domain.com where you can double-check them later.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you take advantage of one of our semi-dedicated hosting, you will not need to worry about junk messages cramming your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can take advantage of the famous SpamAssassin anti-spam filter that we provide with every semi-dedicated hosting account. Our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel will permit you to activate the filter for any email account with several clicks of the mouse and you can select one of the 5 levels of security – from very high to very low. The level can be changed at any time if, for instance, genuine messages get blocked, or if spam messages go through and reach your inbox. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered emails to be delivered to a special email account such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. Thus, you can check them every now and then to ensure that you have not missed out on a genuine message.