Most of the emails sent around the globe these days are spam, in other words – unwanted messages with various offers or with links to malware. Not only are such email messages irritating, but they also pose a threat to your personal computer, not to mention that you may get duped. That’s why, a lot of email providers rely on spam filters, which are applications that monitor all inbound messages and filter out the undesired ones on the basis of their content – what words an email consists of and how often they’re mentioned, what website a certain hyperlink redirects to, what outbound SMTP mail server the message comes from, etc. Some web hosting companies also make use of the databases of spam-tracing organizations dedicated to providing the most up-to-date info about unsolicited email messages, to make sure that their customers will not get any email message in their mailbox that shouldn’t be there.
Spam Filters in Web Hosting
The safety of any email account that you create in a web hosting account with us is ensured by the advanced SpamAssassin email filter that we employ. You can enable it via the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel and it comes with five levels of security based on the spam score given to each message depending on different parameters, such as the frequency of given words, the sender, etc. If you keep receiving spam email messages, you can always raise the level or if you are scared that you may omit a genuine message, you can combine the automatic filter with a custom one and forward all messages from a specific sender to a different email account. In case you decide that you no longer want a spam filter for a certain mailbox, you can disable it with just several mouse clicks.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you take advantage of one of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting service, you won’t need to worry about junk email messages occupying your mailboxes all the time, as you can resort to the famous SpamAssassin email filter that we provide with every account. Our custom-built Hepsia hosting Control Panel will allow you to activate the filter for any mailbox with several mouse clicks and you can select one of the 5 levels of safety – from very low to very high. The level can be changed at any time if, for instance, genuine email messages get filtered, or if unsolicited bulk email messages go through and reach your Inbox folder. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered messages to be redirected to a special mailbox like spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. In this way, you can go through them every now and then to make sure that you have not missed an authentic email.