Spam Filters
Get familiar with e-mail spam filters, the things they do and how to enable them.
A spam filter is a software application that is installed on a mail server and keeps track of all incoming messages to hinder any unsolicited ones from entering a given inbox. A few examples of such email messages would be: offers for pills or cash, fake banking notifications or attachments that contain malware sent with the idea to damage your personal computer. Email filters typically ‘scan’ the content of an email and when they detect particular keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the email or re-send it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some web hosts mix their own spam filters with up-to-date databases from spam-tracking organizations, so as to guarantee better security for their customers. Such databases include patterns, mail server IP addresses and other information about spam email messages recently revealed by these organizations.
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Spam Filters in Cloud Hosting
If you get a
cloud hosting plan from our company and if you use our mail services, you will be able to activate anti-spam protection for any of the email accounts that you set up from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With no more than a couple of clicks of the mouse, you can pick between 5 different levels of safety. If you start receiving spam, you can begin with the lowest one and then gradually raise the level till you stop getting spam. We use one of the best and most popular filters available on the market called SpamAssassin. It ‘scans’ the header section and the body of each email that you get and determines a spam score, based on which it either erases a certain email or allows it to enter your inbox. Hepsia will also allow you to activate custom email filters and either eliminate unwanted email messages or redirect them to a 3rd-party email address like spam@domain.com where you can view them once more afterwards.
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Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you use one of our
semi-dedicated hosting plans, you will not have to worry about junk email messages cramming your mailboxes every now and then, as you can take advantage of the popular SpamAssassin spam filter that we offer with each and every semi-dedicated server account. Our in-house created Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to enable the filter for any mailbox with several mouse clicks and you can pick one of the five protection levels – from very high to very low. The level can be altered at any time if, for instance, genuine emails get blocked, or if spam emails go through and reach your inbox. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered emails to be forwarded to a special email account such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be deleted. In this way, you can examine them every now and then to ensure that you haven’t missed out on an authentic email.