An email filter is a software app that hinders undesired email messages from reaching a given inbox. A substantial percentage of the email traffic around the globe is composed of spam email messages: offers for pills or cash, false banking notifications, etc. That’s why, it’s quite important to use filters to avoid not only unsolicited bulk email messages, but also any possibility of being ripped off in some way. Spam filters detect different things, so as to provide better safety – certain words and phrases or the frequency with which they appear in the text, the sender’s email address, or the IP address of the sender’s email server. Web hosts often use the services of third-party spam-monitoring organizations that provide up-to-the-minute databases to make spam filtering simpler and more effective without affecting authentic emails, even if they include suspicious words or phrases.

Spam Filters in Website Hosting

The protection of any mailbox that you create under a website hosting account with us is ensured by the powerful SpamAssassin email filter that we employ. You can enable it through the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel and it comes with 5 safety levels based on the spam score it gives to every message in accordance with different parameters, such as the frequency of particular words and phrases, the sender, etc. If you keep getting unsolicited bulk email messages, you can always increase the level or if you’re afraid that you may skip a genuine email, you can combine the automatic filter with a custom one and redirect all email messages from a particular sender to some other email address. In case you reach the decision that you no longer want an email filter for a specific email account, you can disable it with only a few clicks of the mouse.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you take advantage of one of our semi-dedicated service, you will not need to worry about spam emails occupying your mailboxes every now and then, as you can take advantage of the popular SpamAssassin spam filter that we offer with every semi-dedicated server account. Our custom-developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel will allow you to enable the filter for any mailbox with several clicks of the mouse and you can select any of the five levels of safety – from very high to very low. The level can be changed at any time if, for instance, authentic email messages get filtered, or if unsolicited bulk messages go through and reach your Inbox folder. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered email messages to be redirected to a special mailbox like spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. In this way, you can go through them from time to time to make sure that you haven’t missed out on an authentic email.