An email filter is an application that obstructs undesired emails from reaching a given mailbox. A huge percentage of the email correspondence around the world consists of spam emails: offers for pills or cash, fraudulent bank notifications, and so on. This is why, it’s rather important to use filters in order to avoid not only spam messages, but also any possibility of being duped somehow. Email filters detect various things, so as to ensure higher levels of safety – specific words and phrases or the frequency with which they occur in the text, the sender’s address, or the IP of the sender’s mail server. Web hosts frequently use the services of 3rd-party spam-monitoring organizations that offer up-to-the-minute databases in order to make spam filtering easier and more efficient without affecting legitimate messages, even if they include suspicious words.
Spam Filters in Website Hosting
Our website hosting servers employ one of the very best spam filters out there. It’s called SpamAssassin and is included with each web hosting package, so if you host your domain names with us, you can select one of the 5 security levels that the spam filter offers for any mailbox that you’ve got here. You can do this with only 2 clicks of the mouse from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is used to manage all shared hosting accounts. SpamAssassin analyzes the header field and the content of each and every email message, gives it a spam score and then proceeds on the basis of the level that you’ve picked. Each mailbox can have a different level and you can select whether the email messages that the spam filter reports as spam should be deleted or re-sent to another mailbox where you can view them later, so as to avoid erasing a genuine email. Switching to some other level or deactivating the anti-spam protection is also truly easy.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you take advantage of one of our Linux semi-dedicated servers, you will not have to worry about junk emails occupying your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can take advantage of the famous SpamAssassin spam filter that we provide with each account. Our in-house built 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 pick one of the 5 safety levels – from very low to very high. The level can be changed at any time if, for instance, legitimate emails get blocked, or if unsolicited bulk emails go through and reach your inbox. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered messages to be redirected to a special email account like spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. Thus, you can go through them from time to time to make sure that you have not missed out on an authentic message.