Most emails sent around the globe these days are spam, i.e. unwelcome messages with various offers or with hyperlinks to malicious software. Not only are such emails annoying, but they also pose a risk to your own PC, not to mention that you may be swindled. That’s the reason why plenty of email providers resort to email filters, which are applications that keep track of all incoming messages and filter the undesired ones based on their content – what words or phrases an email message includes and how often they’re referred to, what web site a particular link opens, what outgoing server the email message is sent from, etc. Certain providers also make use of the databases of spam-monitoring organizations devoted to the provision of the most up-to-the-minute information about unwelcome messages, to make certain that their clients will not get any email in their mailbox that should not be there.
Spam Filters in Shared Hosting
Our shared hosting servers rely on one of the best spam filters out there. It’s called SpamAssassin and is offered with every web hosting plan, so if you host your domain names with our company, you can pick one of the five security levels that the spam filter offers for any email account that you’ve got here. You can accomplish this with just two clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is used to manage all shared hosting accounts. SpamAssassin examines the header field and the content of each email, gives it a spam score and then continues in accordance with the level that you have opted for. Every email account can have a different setting and you can select whether the email messages that the anti-spam filter labels as spam should be deleted or forwarded to another email address where you can read them at a later time, so as to prevent erasing a genuine email. Switching to some other level or deactivating the spam protection is also pretty easy.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you take advantage of one of our semi-dedicated servers, you won’t have to worry about spam messages filling up your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can make use of the famous SpamAssassin spam filter that we offer with each account. Our custom-developed Hepsia Control Panel will permit you to activate the filter for any mailbox with a few mouse clicks and you can choose one of the five levels of protection – from very low to very high. The level can be changed at any moment if, for instance, authentic messages get filtered, or if junk emails go through and appear in your inbox. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered email messages to be forwarded to a special email account such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. Thus, you can go through them from time to time to make sure that you have not omitted an authentic message.