Spam Filtering Service

Aushosts has sophisticated anti-spam tools to that will enable you to manage your email accounts more effectively; and take back control of your inbox.

We use SpamAssassin, Real-time black lists (RBL) and other techniques to provide you with basic anti-spam filtering.

SpamAssassin is a computer program released under the Apache License 2.0 used for e-mail spam filtering based on content-matching rules, which also supports DNS-based, checksum-based and statistical filtering, supported by external programs and online databases.

SpamAssassin is regarded by some as one of the most effective spam filters, especially when used in combination with spam databases. While simple text-matching alone may, for most users, be sufficient to correctly classify a majority of incoming mail the complexity involved in the combination of the comparison of words and symbols used in conjunction with the sources of spam may far exceed the average user's capability. For instance, graphic-only spam messages have no text to compare to therefore checking the sender's originating mail server and included links against various databases of known e-mail abusers enables the prevention of unnecessary or non-personal mail getting through to the end user.