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Email SPAM filtering option

We offer advanced Anti SPAM filtering technology based on SpamAssassin and relay block lists.  SpamAssassin uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify spam and calculates the total hits of rules. Based on the value of hits it classifies a message is legit email or spam. It also integrates Relay Block List (also called SURBL) technologies and offers many other features like the complete spam message and header reporting.

Email accounts hosted with us can have the SPAM messages either only tagged or tagged and placed in a separate folder.

Spam folders are a unique feature that stores spam messages on the server in a special folder for each user. Users have the ability to browse this folder and move messages between the spam and any other folder on the server.

The system supports also user configurable black and white lists.  Users are able to exempt certain domains or addresses without requesting help from an administrator.  Administrators can create domain wide white lists affecting all accounts within there domain.

If you run your own email server

Even if you run your own email server, you can utilize our Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus technology for your domain.  Inbound email can be routed to our mail systems first even before it  reaches your systems.  Our servers will than run a comprehensive Antivirus scan and perform spam tagging.  Than all email will be forwarded to your system.  This process has 3 distinct advantages:

  An additional layer of virus filtering before email reaches your network
  Anti-Spam tagging.
  Backup email server functionality should your system be down

A simple client side filter can than sort the prescreened messages in to a folder of your choice.  In the below example the SPAM messages have been placed by a rule in to the Outlook 2003 Junk e-mail folder. The subject lines are tagged using the words [Spam] and a rule can move the messages to any folder desired or deletes the messages entirely.

 

 
 

Client testimonials

 

We had unusual email hosting needs and decided on Hostmeister because of their flexibility to accommodate us at a very reasonable price. We have been with them for several years and they have continually impressed us with their responsiveness and their very apparent interest in providing the best possible service.
Philipp Strazny, IT Manager TheGeogroup.com

 

 

Last updated: 12/13/05

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