A spam filter is a software application that is installed on an email server and monitors all inbound email messages to prevent any unasked-for ones from entering a specific mailbox. A few examples of such email messages would be: offers for pills or money, fake banking statements or attachments that contain malicious software sent with the intention of infecting your personal computer. Spam filters typically check the content of an email and when they come across certain keywords or other dubious content, they either erase the email or deliver it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain providers combine their own spam filters with up-to-date databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to guarantee higher levels of security for their clients. Such databases contain patterns, email server IPs and other info about spam messages recently reported by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Web Hosting

Our web hosting servers use one of the very best anti-spam filters out there. It’s called SpamAssassin and is available with each and every package, so in case you host your domains with our company, you can pick one of the five levels of safety that the anti-spam filter offers for any mailbox that you’ve got here. You can do this with just 2 clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is used to manage all web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin ‘scans’ the header and the content of every message, gives it 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 emails that the anti-spam filter considers as spam should be erased or forwarded to another mailbox where you can read them at a later point in time, so as to prevent deleting a genuine email message. Switching to a different level or deactivating the protection is also truly easy.