An email filter is a software app that’s installed on a POP3/IMAP mail server and keeps track of all incoming email messages in order to block any unwelcome ones from reaching a certain inbox. A few examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or cash, fake banking notices or email attachments that contain malicious code sent with the idea to damage your PC. Email filters normally check the content of an email message and if they spot specific keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the message or re-send it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain web hosting companies combine their own email filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to guarantee better protection for their customers. Such databases include patterns, email server IPs and other info about spam messages recently uncovered by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Web Hosting

If you order a web hosting package from us and if you make use of our email services, you’ll be able to activate spam filtering for any of the email accounts that you create from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel. With no more than a few clicks, you can pick between five separate levels of protection. In case you start getting spam, you can start with the lowest level and then slowly increase the level until you stop getting spam. We use one of the best and most famous filters out there called SpamAssassin. It ‘scans’ the header section and the body of every email that you get and determines a spam score, based on which it either deletes a given message or allows it to enter your mailbox. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel will also allow you to set up custom spam filters and either get rid of unasked-for email messages or re-send them to a third-party email address like spam@domain.com where you can read them again later.