Most of the email messages sent around the world these days are spam, i.e. unsolicited messages with different offers or with hyperlinks to malicious software. Not only are such email messages aggravating, but they also pose a risk to your own computer, not to mention that you may get conned. Because of this, many mail service providers make use of email filters, which are apps that keep track of all incoming messages and filter out the undesired ones based on their content – what words or phrases an email contains and how many times they are cited, what site a particular hyperlink redirects to, what outgoing server the email is sent from, etc. Certain web hosting companies also use the databases of spam-tracking organizations devoted to providing the most up-to-date info about undesirable emails, to make sure that their customers won’t receive any email in their mailbox that should not be there.

Spam Filters in Web Hosting

Our web hosting servers rely on one of the best anti-spam filters available. It’s called SpamAssassin and is available with each and every hosting plan, so if you host your domains with us, you can choose one of the 5 security levels that the filter offers for any email account that you have here. You can accomplish this with only two clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that’s used to manage all web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin analyzes the header section and the content of every message, gives it a spam score and then continues based on the level that you’ve chosen. Each mailbox can have a different setting and you can choose whether the messages that the anti-spam filter reports as spam should be erased or delivered to a different mailbox where you can examine them later, so as to avoid erasing a legitimate message. Switching to a different level or disabling the spam protection is also exceptionally easy.