Most of the email messages sent around the world these days are spam, in other words – unsolicited messages with different offers or with links to malware. Not only are such email messages irritating, but they also pose a risk to your own computer, not to mention that you may get tricked. That’s why, numerous mail service providers make use of spam filters, which are apps that keep track of all incoming messages and filter out the undesired ones on the basis of their content – what words an email includes and how often they are mentioned, what web site a specific hyperlink opens, what SMTP mail server the message comes from, and so on. Certain web hosting companies also use the databases of spam-tracking organizations dedicated to providing the most up-to-date information about unwanted emails, to make sure that their customers will not get any email in their inbox that shouldn’t be there.

Spam Filters in Shared Website Hosting

The protection of any email account that you set up in a shared website hosting account with our company is ensured by the powerful SpamAssassin spam filter that we use. You can activate it through the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel and it comes with five protection levels based on the spam score it gives to every email message depending on different criteria, such as the recurrence of certain words, the sender, and so on. If you keep receiving spam, you can always increase the level or if you are scared that you may miss a genuine email, you can mix the automated filter with a custom one and redirect all email messages from a particular sender to some other email address. In case you reach the decision that you no longer need an email filter for a given mailbox, you can deactivate it with just a few clicks.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you take advantage of one of our semi-dedicated servers, you will not need to worry about junk email messages occupying your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can resort to the famous SpamAssassin spam filter that we provide with every account. Our in-house developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel will allow you to activate the filter for any email account with several mouse clicks and you can pick any of the 5 security levels – from very low to very high. The level can be changed at any time if, for instance, genuine emails get blocked, or if spam emails go through and appear in your Inbox folder. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered messages to be forwarded to a special email account like spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. In this way, you can go through them every now and then to make sure that you haven’t missed out on an authentic message.