A spam filter is a software app that blocks unwelcome emails from reaching a particular mailbox. A considerable percentage of the email correspondence around the globe is composed of spam messages: offers for pills or money, fake banking notifications, and so on. For this reason, it is rather important to enable filters to avoid not only spam emails, but also any chance of being tricked somehow. Spam filters detect different things, so as to deliver better security – 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 outgoing SMTP mail server. Web hosts frequently rely on the services of 3rd-party spam-tracking organizations that offer up-to-the-minute databases in order to make spam filtering better and simpler without affecting authentic messages, even if they comprise suspicious words.

Spam Filters in Shared Web Hosting

Our shared web hosting servers use one of the very best spam filters available. It’s called SpamAssassin and is offered with each and every cloud hosting package, so in case you host your domain names with our company, you can select one of the five safety levels that the anti-spam filter offers for any email account that you have here. You can do this with just 2 clicks of the mouse from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to manage all shared accounts. SpamAssassin ‘scans’ the header and the body of every message, calculates a spam score and then proceeds on the basis of the level that you’ve picked. Each email account can have a different setting and you can select whether the messages that the spam filter marks as spam should be erased or forwarded to some other mailbox where you can view them at a later time, so as to avoid erasing a legitimate email message. Switching to a different level or deactivating the spam protection is also very easy.