Most of the email messages sent around the world nowadays are spam, in other words – undesired messages with different offers or with links to malware. Not only are such email messages annoying, but they also pose a risk to your own PC, not to mention that you may get tricked. That’s why, plenty of email service providers resort to spam filters, which are applications that ‘scan’ all inbound emails and filter out the undesired ones on the basis of their content – what words an email includes and how often they’re referred to, what website a specific hyperlink points to, what outgoing SMTP server the email comes from, and so on. Certain companies also make use of the databases of spam-detecting organizations devoted to providing the most up-to-the-minute information about unsolicited emails, to ensure that their clients won’t get any message in their mailbox that should not be there.

Spam Filters in Shared Hosting

If you get a shared hosting package from our company and if you take advantage of our email 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 choose between five different levels of protection. In case you start getting spam, you can begin with the lowest one and then slowly boost the level until you stop getting spam. We rely on one of the very best and most famous spam filters available called SpamAssassin. It examines the header and the body of each email that you get and calculates a spam score, based on which it either erases a given email or allows it to reach your inbox. The Hepsia Control Panel will also permit you to activate custom spam filters and either erase undesirable email messages or send them to a third-party address such as spam@domain.com where you can check them once again later.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you use one of our semi-dedicated servers, you won’t need to worry about junk email messages clogging your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can resort to the popular SpamAssassin anti-spam filter that we provide with every semi-dedicated server account. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to enable the filter for any mailbox with a few clicks and you can select one of the 5 safety levels – from very high to very low. The level can be altered at any moment if, for instance, authentic email messages get blocked, or if unsolicited bulk email messages go through and reach your Inbox folder. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered messages to be forwarded to a special mailbox such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. In this way, you can examine them from time to time to make certain that you have not missed a genuine email.