A spam filter is a software application that runs on an email server and ‘scans’ all incoming messages to hinder any unwelcome ones from reaching a given mailbox. Several examples of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, fake banking notifications or attachments that contain malicious software sent with the idea to damage your computer. Spam filters usually ‘scan’ the content of an email message and when they spot given keywords or other dubious content, they either erase the email message or deliver it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some web hosting companies combine their own spam filters with up-to-date databases from spam-monitoring organizations, so as to ensure better protection for their customers. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IPs and other information about spam email messages recently reported by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Website Hosting

Our website hosting servers employ one of the best spam filters available on the market. It is called SpamAssassin and is included with each package, so if you host your domains with our company, you can opt for one of the five levels of security that the spam filter offers for any mailbox that you’ve got here. You can accomplish this with just 2 clicks of the mouse from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is used to manage all cloud hosting accounts. SpamAssassin checks the header section and the content of each and every message, calculates a spam score and then proceeds according to the level that you’ve chosen. Every mailbox can have a different setting and you can select whether the emails that the anti-spam filter labels as spam should be deleted or delivered to a separate mailbox where you can read them later, so as to avoid deleting a legitimate email message. Switching to a different level or deactivating the spam protection is also rather easy.