An email filter is a software app that’s installed on a POP3/IMAP mail server and keeps track of all inbound emails in order to stop any unwelcome ones from entering a certain inbox. A few instances of such email messages would be: offers for pills or cash, fake banking notifications or email attachments that contain malicious software sent with the idea of damaging your personal computer. Spam filters usually ‘scan’ the content of an email message and when they come across given keywords or other suspicious content, they either delete the email or deliver it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Some web hosting companies combine their own filters with up-to-date databases from spam-detecting organizations, so as to guarantee better protection for their customers. Such databases contain patterns, mail server IPs and other information about spam messages recently uncovered by these organizations.
Spam Filters in Cloud Website Hosting
Our cloud website hosting servers employ one of the best spam filters available on the market. It’s called SpamAssassin and is included with each and every plan, so in case you host your domain names with our company, you can select one of the five levels of safety that the anti-spam filter offers for any email account that you have here. You can accomplish this with only two mouse clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is used to manage all shared accounts. SpamAssassin ‘scans’ the header and the body of every email message, gives it a spam score and then proceeds in accordance with the level that you have chosen. Every mailbox can have a different setting and you can choose if the email messages that the anti-spam filter labels as spam should be deleted or re-sent to some other mailbox where you can read them at a later time, so as to avoid erasing a genuine message. Changing the level or disabling the protection is also astonishingly easy.