Most of the emails sent around the globe nowadays are spam, i.e. unsolicited messages with various offers or with links to malicious software. Not only are such email messages annoying, but they also present a threat to your own computer, not to mention that you may be duped. That is why, numerous email providers resort to spam filters, which are software applications that ‘scan’ all incoming emails and filter the undesirable ones on the basis of their content – what words an email includes and how many times they are mentioned, what site a specific link points to, what outgoing SMTP server the email message is sent from, and so on. Certain hosting providers also use the databases of spam-detecting organizations dedicated to the provision of the most up-to-date info about undesired email messages, to ensure that their clients won’t get any message in their inbox that shouldn’t be there.
Spam Filters in Cloud Website Hosting
Our cloud website hosting servers rely on one of the best anti-spam filters available. It is called SpamAssassin and is offered with each and every shared hosting package, so if you host your domain names with us, you can choose one of the 5 levels of safety that the spam filter offers for any mailbox that you’ve got here. You can do this with just 2 clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is used to manage all shared hosting accounts. SpamAssassin ‘scans’ the header section and the content of every message, calculates a spam score and then proceeds on the basis of the level that you’ve picked. Every email account can have a different setting and you can select whether the emails that the anti-spam filter considers as spam should be deleted or delivered to another mailbox where you can read them later, so as to avoid erasing an authentic email message. Switching to some other level or deactivating the anti-spam protection is also astonishingly easy.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you use one of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting packages, you will not have to worry about spam email messages cramming your mailboxes every once in a while, as you can take advantage of the famous SpamAssassin spam filter that we offer with every semi-dedicated hosting account. Our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel will allow you to enable the filter for any mailbox with a couple of clicks of the mouse and you can pick one of the five levels of safety – from very low to very high. The level can be altered at any time if, for instance, genuine emails get blocked, or if junk email messages go through and reach your Inbox folder. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered messages to be delivered to a special mailbox such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. In this way, you can go through them every now and then to ensure that you haven’t omitted a legitimate email.