A spam filter is a software app that’s installed on an email server and ‘scans’ all inbound email messages to hinder any unsolicited ones from reaching a specific inbox. Several instances of such email messages would be: offers for pills or cash, fake banking statements or email attachments that contain malicious code sent with the idea of damaging your computer. Email filters typically examine the content of an email and when they spot given keywords or other dubious content, they either erase the message or redirect it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain companies combine their own spam filters with up-to-date databases from spam-tracing organizations, so as to ensure higher levels of security for their clients. Such databases contain patterns, email server IP addresses and other information about spam messages recently reported by these organizations.

Spam Filters in Cloud Website Hosting

Our cloud website hosting servers use one of the very best anti-spam filters out there. It is called SpamAssassin and is included with every web hosting plan, so if you host your domains with us, you can select one of the 5 levels of protection that the filter offers for any mailbox that you’ve got here. You can do this with only two mouse clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to manage all web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin analyzes the header section and the body of each and every message, gives it a spam score and then continues according to the level that you have selected. Each mailbox can have a different level and you can choose whether the email messages that the spam filter reports as spam should be deleted or re-sent to another mailbox where you can check them at a later time, so as to prevent deleting a legitimate message. Switching to a different level or disabling the protection is also remarkably easy.