Most email messages sent around the globe nowadays are spam, i.e. unwelcome messages with different offers or with hyperlinks to malware. Not only are such email messages annoying, but they also pose a threat to your personal computer, not to mention that you may be duped. For this reason, numerous email providers make use of email filters, which are applications that monitor all incoming emails and filter out the undesired ones on the basis of their content – what words or phrases an email message consists of and how often they’re mentioned, what web site a certain hyperlink leads to, what outgoing SMTP server the email message is sent from, and so on. Some providers also make use of the databases of spam-monitoring organizations dedicated to the provision of the most up-to-date information about undesirable messages, to ensure that their clients will not receive any email message in their inbox that shouldn’t be there.
Spam Filters in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you take advantage of one of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting, you will not have to worry about spam messages stuffing your mailboxes all the time, as you can make use of the famous SpamAssassin anti-spam filter that we provide with each and every semi-dedicated account. Our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to activate the filter for any email account with a few clicks and you can select any of the five protection levels – from very high to very low. The level can be changed at any time if, for instance, authentic email messages get filtered, or if spam email messages go through and appear in your Inbox folder. To be on the safe side, you can choose all filtered emails to be delivered to a special mailbox such as spam@your-domain.com and not to be erased. Thus, you can check them every now and then to make certain that you haven’t omitted a genuine message.