An email filter is a software app that is installed on an email server and ‘scans’ all incoming messages so as to block any undesirable ones from entering a certain mailbox. Several instances of such emails would be: offers for pills or money, false bank statements or attachments that contain malicious software sent with the intention to infect your computer. Spam filters usually check the content of an email and in case they detect given keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the email or forward it to the Spam/Junk folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain web hosts combine their own email filters with up-to-date databases from spam-tracing organizations, so as to ensure better security for their customers. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IPs and other information about spam messages recently reported by these organizations.
Spam Filters in Shared Website Hosting
If you get a shared website hosting plan from us and if you use our mail services, you will be able to activate spam filters for any of the email accounts that you create from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel. With just a couple of clicks of the mouse, you can select between 5 separate security levels. In case you start receiving spam, you can start with the lowest one and then gradually boost the level till you stop receiving spam. We make use of one of the very best and most famous spam filters out there called SpamAssassin. It examines the header and the body of each and every message that you get and calculates a spam score, based on which it either erases a certain email message or permits it to enter your inbox. The Hepsia hosting Control Panel will also permit you to create custom filters and either get rid of undesirable email messages or redirect them to a 3rd-party email address such as spam@domain.com where you can view them once more at a later point in time.