Spam Filters

Get familiar with e-mail spam filters, the things they do and how to enable them.

An email filter is a software app that stops unwelcome emails from reaching a given inbox. A significant percentage of the email communication around the world consists of spam messages: offers for pills or cash, sham banking notifications, and so on. That is why, it is really important to set up email filters to avoid not only spam messages, but also any possibility of being duped in some way. Email filters detect different things, so as to ensure higher levels of safety – certain words and phrases or the frequency with which they surface in the text, the sender’s address, or the IP of the sender’s outbound mail server. Hosting providers frequently resort to the services of third-party spam-detecting organizations that provide up-to-the-minute databases to render email filtering easier and more effective without affecting authentic emails, even if they contain suspicious words or phrases.

Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you use a semi-dedicated server plan from our company and if you create one or more mailboxes with any of the domains hosted in your account, you’ll be able to activate the advanced, five-level SpamAssassin filter that we offer and keep all undesired emails out of your mailbox. This service is accessible through the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and it can be enabled or disabled for any email account whenever you like. You can also configure the safety level with a few clicks of the mouse in case spam email messages continue to enter your inbox or the anti-spam filter begins deleting authentic email messages. Since you can choose whether the spam should be deleted immediately or forwarded to some other email address, you can create spam@domain.com, for instance, and view all filtered messages there, so as to make certain that you will not omit a message that you need. The messages that the anti-spam filter permits to go through will still be delivered to your inbox.