An email filter is a software application that’s installed on an email server and ‘scans’ all incoming emails to stop any unsolicited ones from entering a specific inbox. A few instances of such email messages would be: offers for pills or cash, fraudulent bank notices or attachments that contain malware sent with the intention to infect your PC. Email filters usually check the content of an email message and when they spot certain keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the email or redirect it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain providers combine their own spam filters with up-to-date databases from spam-tracking organizations, so as to ensure better security for their customers. Such databases include patterns, mail server IP addresses and other info about spam email messages recently reported by these organizations.
Spam Filters in Cloud Website Hosting
The security of any email account that you set up in a cloud website hosting account with us is ensured by the powerful SpamAssassin email filter that we employ. You can activate it via the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it comes with 5 security levels based on the spam score it gives to each and every message depending on various criteria, such as the frequency of particular words and phrases, the sender, and so on. If you keep receiving junk emails, you can always raise the level or if you are scared that you may omit an authentic email message, you can mix the automated spam filter with a custom one and redirect all emails from a specific sender to some other email address. If you reach the decision that you no longer need anti-spam protection for a certain email account, you can disable it with no more than a few clicks of the mouse.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you use one of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, you won’t need to worry about junk email messages stuffing your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can take advantage of the famous SpamAssassin anti-spam filter that we provide with each and every semi-dedicated hosting account. Our in-house created Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to enable the filter for any mailbox with several clicks of the mouse and you can choose any of the five safety levels – from very high to very low. The level can be changed at any moment if, for example, authentic email messages get blocked, or if junk email messages go through and reach your inbox. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered emails to be forwarded to a special mailbox like spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. Thus, you can go through them from time to time to make sure that you haven’t missed out on a legitimate message.