Most emails sent around the world these days are spam, in other words – unasked-for messages with different offers or with hyperlinks to malicious software. Not only are such email messages annoying, but they also pose a risk to your computer, not to mention that you may be scammed. That is why, lots of mail service providers use email filters, which are applications that ‘scan’ all incoming emails and filter the unwanted ones on the basis of their content – what words or phrases an email message contains and how many times they’re referred to, what website a certain link redirects to, what outbound mail server the email is sent from, and so on. Some web hosting companies also rely on the databases of spam-tracing organizations devoted to the provision of the most up-to-the-minute information about undesirable emails, to make certain that their clients won’t receive any message in their mailbox that is not supposed to be there.

Spam Filters in Shared Hosting

The safety of any mailbox that you create under a shared hosting account with us is guaranteed by the advanced SpamAssassin spam filter that we employ. You can enable it via the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel and it comes with 5 security levels based on the spam score given to every email in accordance with various criteria, such as the recurrence of particular words, the sender, etc. If you keep getting unsolicited bulk email messages, you can always increase the level or if you’re scared that you may miss a legitimate email message, you can combine the automated filter with a custom one and redirect all email messages from a particular sender to some other email account. If you decide that you no longer need anti-spam protection for a certain email account, you can deactivate it with just a couple of clicks.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you take advantage of one of our semi-dedicated servers, you will not need to worry about spam emails occupying your mailboxes all the time, as you can make use of the famous SpamAssassin filter that we provide with every semi-dedicated hosting account. Our in-house developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel will permit you to enable the filter for any email account with several clicks and you can pick one of the 5 safety levels – from very high to very low. The level can be changed at any time if, for instance, legitimate emails get blocked, or if spam emails go through and appear in your inbox. To take no chances, 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 examine them from time to time to make sure that you haven’t missed out on an authentic email message.