A spam filter is a piece of software that runs on a POP3/IMAP server and keeps track of all inbound messages so as to block any unwanted ones from reaching a specific mailbox. A few instances of such email messages would be: offers for pills or money, false banking statements or attachments that contain malicious software sent with the intention to damage your PC. Spam filters typically check the content of an email and when they detect given keywords or other dubious content, they either delete the message or forward it to the Junk/Spam folder instead of the Inbox folder. Certain companies combine their own email filters with up-to-date databases from spam-tracking organizations, so as to ensure higher levels of security for their clients. Such databases include patterns, mail server IPs and other info about spam email messages recently uncovered by these organizations.
Spam Filters in Shared Hosting
Our shared hosting servers employ one of the best anti-spam filters available on the market. It’s called SpamAssassin and is offered with each and every cloud web hosting package, so if you host your domain names with our company, you can select one of the 5 levels of protection that the anti-spam filter offers for any mailbox that you’ve got here. You can do this with just 2 clicks from the Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel that’s used to manage all web hosting accounts. SpamAssassin ‘scans’ the header field and the content of every message, calculates a spam score and then continues according to the level that you’ve 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 erased or delivered to a different mailbox where you can review them at a later point in time, so as to avoid deleting a genuine email. Switching to some other level or deactivating the anti-spam protection is also unbelievably easy.