Most of the emails sent around the world these days are spam, in other words – unrequested messages with various offers or with hyperlinks to malicious software. Not only are such emails annoying, but they also present a risk to your computer, not to mention that you may get tricked. That is the reason why lots of mail service providers use email filters, which are software applications that ‘scan’ all incoming messages and filter out the unwanted ones based on their content – what words an email message consists of and how often they’re cited, what website a particular link leads to, what outgoing SMTP mail server the email message is sent from, etc. Some web hosting providers also use the databases of spam-detecting organizations dedicated to providing the most up-to-the-minute info about unasked-for messages, to make sure that their customers will not receive any email in their mailbox that’s not supposed to be there.

Spam Filters in Shared Website Hosting

Our shared website hosting servers rely on one of the very best spam filters available on the market. It’s called SpamAssassin and is available with every cloud hosting package, so in case you host your domain names with us, you can choose one of the 5 security levels that the anti-spam filter offers for any mailbox that you’ve got here. You can do this with only two clicks of the mouse from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to manage all cloud web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin checks the header section and the content of each and every email message, gives it a spam score and then proceeds based on the level that you have selected. Every email account can have a different setting and you can select if the email messages that the filter considers as spam should be deleted or redirected to another email account where you can read them later, so as to avoid deleting a legitimate email. Switching to some other level or deactivating the anti-spam protection is also pretty easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you take advantage of one of our Linux semi-dedicated packages, you won’t need to worry about spam email messages stuffing your mailboxes all the time, as you can take advantage of the famous SpamAssassin spam filter that we provide with every account. Our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel will allow you to activate the filter for any mailbox with several clicks of the mouse and you can pick any of the five protection levels – from very low to very high. The level can be altered at any moment if, for example, legitimate messages get blocked, or if junk email messages go through and reach your Inbox folder. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered messages to be re-sent to a special email account such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. Thus, you can go through them every now and then to make sure that you have not missed an authentic message.