Most emails sent around the world nowadays are spam, i.e. unrequested messages with various offers or with links to malicious software. Not only are such email messages irritating, but they also pose a threat to your computer, not to mention that you may be conned. That is why, a lot of email service providers rely on spam filters, which are software apps that ‘scan’ all incoming email messages and filter out the unwanted ones on the basis of their content – what words or phrases an email contains and how often they are cited, what site a specific link points to, what outgoing mail server the message is sent from, etc. Some web hosting providers also make use of the databases of spam-detecting organizations dedicated to providing the most up-to-date information about undesirable emails, to make certain that their clients won’t get any message in their mailbox that shouldn’t be there.

Spam Filters in Shared Hosting

If you get a shared hosting package from us and if you take advantage of our email services, you’ll be able to set up spam filtering for any of the mailboxes that you create from the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. With no more than a couple of clicks, you can pick between five separate levels of protection. In case you start receiving spam, you can start with the lowest level and then gradually raise the level till you stop getting spam. We use one of the best and most popular filters available called SpamAssassin. It analyzes the header section and the body of each email message that you get and determines a spam score, based on which it either erases a specific message or permits it to enter your mailbox. The Hepsia Control Panel will also allow you to configure custom spam filters and either get rid of unwanted messages or forward them to a third-party address such as spam@domain.com where you can read them once more after that.