An email filter is a software app that is installed on a POP3/IMAP server and keeps track of all incoming emails in order to block any unwanted ones from reaching a particular inbox. A few instances of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, fake bank notices or email attachments that contain malware sent with the intention to infect your PC. Email filters normally check the content of an email and when they come across given keywords or other dubious content, they either erase the email or deliver it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some web hosting providers combine their own spam filters with up-to-the-minute databases from spam-monitoring organizations, so as to ensure better security for their clients. Such databases include patterns, mail server IP addresses and other info about spam emails recently detected by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Cloud Website Hosting

If you get a cloud website hosting package from us and if you take advantage of our email services, you will be able to activate anti-spam protection for any of the mailboxes that you create from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With just several clicks, you can pick between 5 different levels of security. If you start receiving spam, you can begin with the lowest level and then gradually increase the level till you stop receiving spam. We use one of the best and most famous filters available called SpamAssassin. It ‘scans’ the header section and the body of each and every message that you receive and determines a spam score, based on which it either deletes a specific email or allows it to reach your inbox. The Hepsia Control Panel will also allow you to create custom filters and either eliminate unasked-for emails or send them to a 3rd-party address like spam@domain.com where you can view them once again afterwards.