Most of the emails sent around the globe these days are spam, i.e. unsolicited messages with various offers or with hyperlinks to malware. Not only are such email messages annoying, but they also present a risk to your own personal computer, not to mention that you may get ripped off. That is why, numerous mail service providers use spam filters, which are software apps that monitor all inbound emails and filter out the undesired ones on the basis of their content – what words an email consists of and how many times they’re cited, what website a given hyperlink points to, what SMTP mail server the email is sent from, and so on. Certain providers also use the databases of spam-tracking organizations dedicated to providing the most up-to-date info about unwanted email messages, to make sure that their customers won’t receive any email in their mailbox that is not supposed to be there.

Spam Filters in Web Hosting

If you get a web hosting plan from us and if you take advantage of our email services, you will be able to activate anti-spam protection for any of the email accounts that you create from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With only a few clicks of the mouse, you can pick between 5 separate safety levels. In case you start getting spam, you can begin with the lowest level and then gradually increase the level till you stop getting spam. We use one of the best and most popular spam filters available called SpamAssassin. It ‘scans’ the header field and the body of every email message that you get and calculates a spam score, based on which it either erases a given email or allows it to reach your mailbox. The Hepsia Control Panel will also permit you to activate custom email filters and either get rid of undesirable messages or re-send them to a third-party email address such as spam@domain.com where you can view them once more at a later time.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you use one of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages, you won’t need to worry about unsolicited bulk messages clogging your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can take advantage of the famous SpamAssassin filter that we provide with every semi-dedicated server account. Our in-house developed Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to activate the filter for any email account with several clicks of the mouse and you can choose one of the 5 security levels – from very high to very low. The level can be altered at any time if, for example, legitimate messages get blocked, or if spam messages go through and reach your inbox. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered emails to be re-sent to a special email account such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. In this way, you can go through them from time to time to make certain that you have not missed out on a legitimate email message.