A spam filter is a piece of software that is installed on a POP3/IMAP mail server and ‘scans’ all inbound emails in order to obstruct any undesirable ones from reaching a specific mailbox. A few instances of such emails would be: offers for pills or cash, fake banking notifications or email attachments that contain malware sent with the intention to damage your PC. Email filters usually check the content of an email and in case they come across certain keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the email message or redirect it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some web hosting companies mix their own email filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-tracking organizations, so as to guarantee higher levels of safety for their clients. Such databases include patterns, email server IP addresses and other information about spam email messages recently reported by these organizations.
Spam Filters in Hosting
If you reach the decision to host your domains with us and you select any of our hosting plans, you will be able to enable spam filtering for any mailbox that you set up. With a couple of mouse clicks in the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you can set up 5 separate levels of protection. If you continue to receive spam messages or the filters start preventing authentic messages from entering your mailbox, you can switch to a different level just as easily. The quality of our spam detection solution is ensured by one of the most popular spam filters – SpamAssassin. In case you do not want to risk omitting a genuine message that may be blocked as spam due to its content, you can also configure custom spam filters based on the sender, the subject or the body of the email message and re-send the emails to a different email account where you can read them later.