Most emails sent around the world these days are spam, in other words – unwelcome messages with different offers or with links to malicious software. Not only are such email messages irritating, but they also pose a threat to your personal computer, not to mention that you may be duped. That is the reason why a lot of mail service providers resort to email filters, which are applications that keep track of all inbound email messages and filter out the unwanted ones on the basis of their content – what words or phrases an email includes and how often they’re mentioned, what website a specific link points to, what SMTP server the message is sent from, etc. Some web hosts also rely on the databases of spam-tracing organizations dedicated to the provision of the most up-to-date info about unsolicited emails, to ensure that their clients will not receive any email in their inbox that shouldn’t be there.

Spam Filters in Hosting

Our hosting servers use one of the best anti-spam filters available. It is called SpamAssassin and is available with each shared web hosting plan, so in case you host your domain names with our company, you can opt for one of the 5 security levels that the spam filter offers for any email account that you have here. You can do this with only two clicks of the mouse from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that’s used to manage all shared web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin examines the header and the content of each email, calculates a spam score and then continues on the basis of the level that you have selected. Every email account can have a different setting and you can select if the emails that the filter reports as spam should be deleted or redirected to another mailbox where you can check them at a later point in time, so as to avoid erasing a genuine email message. Switching to some other level or deactivating the anti-spam protection is also pretty easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you take advantage of one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, you will not have to worry about unsolicited bulk emails occupying your mailboxes all the time, as you can take advantage of the famous SpamAssassin filter that we offer with every semi-dedicated hosting account. Our in-house developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel will permit you to activate the filter for any email account with a few clicks of the mouse and you can select one of the five protection levels – from very low to very high. The level can be altered at any time if, for instance, authentic emails get filtered, or if junk emails go through and reach your Inbox folder. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered email messages to be redirected to a special email account like spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. In this way, you can check them from time to time to make sure that you have not missed out on a legitimate email.