An email filter is a piece of software that is installed on a POP3/IMAP email server and monitors all inbound emails in order to stop any unasked-for ones from entering a given mailbox. A few instances of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, fraudulent bank notices or email attachments that contain malicious software sent with the idea of infecting your personal computer. Spam filters typically check the content of an email and when they come across some keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the email message or deliver it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain hosting providers combine their own spam filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-monitoring organizations, so as to guarantee better security for their customers. Such databases contain patterns, email server IPs and other information about spam email messages recently uncovered by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Web Hosting

The safety of any email account that you set up in a web hosting account with our company is guaranteed by the powerful SpamAssassin email filter that we use. You can activate it via the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel and it offers five protection levels based on the spam score given to every message depending on various criteria, such as the frequency of certain words, the sender, and so on. If you keep getting spam email messages, you can always raise the level or if you are afraid that you may skip a genuine message, you can mix the automated email filter with a custom one and forward all emails from a certain sender to a different mailbox. In case you reach the decision that you no longer need a spam filter for a specific mailbox, you can deactivate it with just a couple of clicks of the mouse.