Spam Filters

What's an e-mail spam filter? How does it work? How to enable spam filtering?

Most emails sent around the world nowadays are spam, in other words – undesired messages with different offers or with links to malicious software. Not only are such email messages annoying, but they also pose a threat to your personal computer, not to mention that you may get conned. This is why, many mail service providers rely on spam filters, which are apps that monitor all incoming emails and filter out the unwanted ones on the basis of their content – what words or phrases an email message contains and how often they are mentioned, what site a given link opens, what outgoing SMTP server the email comes from, etc. Some hosting providers also make use of the databases of spam-tracing organizations dedicated to providing the most up-to-date info about unsolicited messages, to make sure that their customers will not get any message in their mailbox that is not supposed to be there.

Spam Filters in Shared Web Hosting

If you order a shared web hosting package from our company and if you make use of our mail services, you will be able to set up anti-spam protection for any of the mailboxes that you create from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel. With only a couple of clicks, you can select between five separate levels of security. In case you start receiving spam, you can begin with the lowest one and then slowly increase the level till you stop getting spam. We use one of the very best and most famous filters available on the market called SpamAssassin. It ‘scans’ the header field and the body of each and every email message that you receive and determines a spam score, based on which it either erases a particular email or allows it to reach your inbox. Hepsia will also permit you to activate custom spam filters and either delete unsolicited messages or re-send them to a third-party email address like spam@domain.com where you can examine them again at a later time.