Most email messages sent around the globe these days are spam, i.e. unasked-for messages with various offers or with links to malicious software. Not only are such emails irritating, but they also present a risk to your own computer, not to mention that you may get duped. That is why, many mail service providers rely on email filters, which are software apps that monitor all incoming emails and filter out the undesirable ones based on their content – what words an email consists of and how often they are referred to, what website a certain link opens, what outbound SMTP server the email is sent from, and so on. Some companies also rely on the databases of spam-tracing organizations devoted to providing the most up-to-the-minute info about undesired messages, to ensure that their customers will not receive any email message in their inbox that should not be there.
Spam Filters in Shared Web Hosting
If you get a shared web hosting plan from us and if you use our email services, you will be able to set up anti-spam protection for any of the email accounts that you set up from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel. With only a couple of mouse clicks, you can select between 5 different security levels. In case you start getting spam, you can start with the lowest level and then slowly increase the level until you stop receiving spam. We use one of the best and most famous email filters available called SpamAssassin. It checks the header field and the body of every email message that you receive and calculates a spam score, based on which it either deletes a particular email or permits it to enter your inbox. Hepsia will also allow you to activate custom filters and either delete unasked-for emails or redirect them to a third-party email address like spam@domain.com where you can view them once more at a later point in time.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you use one of our Linux semi-dedicated servers, you will not have to worry about spam email messages occupying your mailboxes all the time, as you can make use of the famous SpamAssassin spam filter that we provide with every semi-dedicated account. Our in-house created Hepsia hosting Control Panel will permit you to enable the filter for any email account with several clicks of the mouse and you can choose any of the 5 security levels – from very low to very high. The level can be changed at any time if, for instance, legitimate messages get filtered, or if unsolicited bulk email messages go through and reach your inbox. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered messages to be forwarded to a special mailbox such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. Thus, you can examine them from time to time to make sure that you have not missed out on a legitimate email.