Most emails sent around the world nowadays are spam, i.e. unsolicited messages with different offers or with hyperlinks to malware. Not only are such email messages aggravating, but they also pose a risk to your own personal computer, not to mention that you may be swindled. That is the reason why lots of mail service providers make use of email filters, which are applications that keep track of all incoming emails and filter out the undesirable ones on the basis of their content – what words an email consists of and how many times they’re mentioned, what web site a particular hyperlink redirects to, what mail server the message comes from, and so on. Some web hosting companies also make use of the databases of spam-tracing organizations devoted to the provision of the most up-to-the-minute info about undesirable messages, to ensure that their clients won’t receive any message in their mailbox that shouldn’t be there.

Spam Filters in Cloud Hosting

Our cloud hosting servers employ one of the very best spam filters available on the market. It is called SpamAssassin and is available with every shared hosting plan, so if you host your domains with us, you can pick one of the 5 levels of protection that the filter offers for any mailbox that you have here. You can do this with just two mouse clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that’s used to manage all hosting accounts. SpamAssassin analyzes the header section and the content of each and every message, calculates a spam score and then proceeds on the basis of the level that you have picked. Each email account can have a different level and you can choose if the email messages that the spam filter reports as spam should be deleted or re-sent to a separate email account where you can check them at a later time, so as to prevent erasing an authentic email. Switching to some other level or disabling the anti-spam protection is also surprisingly easy.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you take advantage of one of our semi-dedicated hosting services, you will not have to worry about spam emails clogging your mailboxes every now and then, as you can resort to the popular SpamAssassin spam filter that we offer with every semi-dedicated server account. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to enable the filter for any mailbox with a couple of mouse clicks and you can pick one of the 5 levels of protection – from very high to very low. The level can be changed at any time if, for instance, genuine emails get filtered, or if unsolicited bulk messages go through and reach your Inbox folder. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered messages to be forwarded to a special mailbox like spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. In this way, you can examine them every now and then to make sure that you haven’t omitted a genuine email.