Most emails sent around the globe nowadays are spam, in other words – undesirable messages with various offers or with hyperlinks to malicious software. Not only are such emails aggravating, but they also present a threat to your computer, not to mention that you may be ripped off. Because of this, plenty of email providers make use of spam filters, which are applications that ‘scan’ all incoming email messages and filter the undesired ones on the basis of their content – what words an email includes and how often they are referred to, what site a specific link opens, what mail server the email is sent from, and so on. Some web hosting providers also make use of the databases of spam-monitoring organizations devoted to providing the most up-to-date info about unrequested messages, to ensure that their clients won’t receive any email in their mailbox that shouldn’t be there.

Spam Filters in Shared Website Hosting

The security of any email account that you create under a shared website hosting account with us is guaranteed by the advanced SpamAssassin email filter that we use. You can enable it via the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel and it offers 5 safety levels based on the spam score it gives to every email depending on different parameters, such as the recurrence of specific words, the sender, etc. If you keep receiving spam messages, you can always increase the level or if you’re afraid that you may omit an authentic message, you can combine the automated filter with a custom one and redirect all email messages from a given sender to some other email account. In case you decide that you no longer need an email filter for a certain email account, you can disable it with just a few clicks of the mouse.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you use one of our semi-dedicated plans, you will not have to worry about unsolicited bulk messages filling up your mailboxes all the time, as you can take advantage of the famous SpamAssassin spam filter that we offer with every account. Our custom-developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel will allow you to activate 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 altered at any moment if, for example, genuine messages get filtered, or if spam email messages go through and appear in your Inbox folder. To take no chances, you can choose all filtered emails to be redirected to a special email account like spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. Thus, you can go through them from time to time to make certain that you have not omitted an authentic email message.