We moved from XO communications last year since the price of a site with more than 100MB was far too expensive there.  We made a horrible mistake by hosting with FeaturePrice.  They don't seem to understand the concept of customer service or know how to run a mail server.  They also seem to have some kind of spam filter on the email.  

We noticed an immediate drop in spam when we switched over, but we also found that a handful of legitimate senders cannot get through.  Frankly, we find that spam is easy to ignore and we prefer either no filter or the ability to disable it if one is standard.

Can anyone tell me about the email service at Lunarpages and if it is filtered or not?

Thanks

Spam Assasin (100% Customizable) Does not delete any of the incoming emails. If just flags them as potential spam. It is then up to yoou to filter then on your local machine to identify them appropriately.

I have my mail software to put anything that scores higher than 5 points using Spam Assasin to be put into a sepereate folder which I glance through whenever I get new email just to double check, before I delete it all. So far I have received 0 messages in my Spam box that shouldn't have been there. The odd one slips by to my inbox, but its only a few a week instead of hundreds!

Once again, you can completely control wether Spam Assasin is enabled, and what it filters, and if you want you can set up a special whitelilst that allows certain people to get through the filter system no matter how much of a spam the message looks like.

- Ed