Spam Filters

Get familiar with e-mail spam filters, what they do and how to enable them.

Most emails sent around the world nowadays are spam, in other words – unsolicited messages with different offers or with hyperlinks to malware. Not only are such email messages irritating, but they also pose a risk to your own personal computer, not to mention that you may be conned. That is the reason why many email service providers make use of email filters, which are applications that monitor all incoming email messages and filter the undesired ones based on their content – what words or phrases an email message includes and how many times they’re mentioned, what website a given link points to, what mail server the email message is sent from, and so on. Certain web hosting companies also make use of the databases of spam-tracking organizations devoted to the provision of the most up-to-the-minute information about undesired email messages, to make sure that their clients won’t receive any message in their inbox that shouldn’t be there.

: Spam Filters in Website Hosting

If you reach the decision to host your domains with us and you select any of our Linux website hosting, you will be able to enable spam filtering for any mailbox that you set up. With a couple of mouse clicks in the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you can switch between 5 different levels of safety. If you still get spam emails or the email filters start preventing genuine emails from entering your inbox, you can change the level just as easily. The quality of our spam detection solution is guaranteed by one of the most widely used filters – SpamAssassin. If you do not want to risk omitting a legitimate email message that may be mistaken for spam because of its content, you can also create custom email filters based on the body, the sender or the subject of the email message and forward the emails to a different email address where you can read them at a later time.