How To Stop Spam Emails In Cpanel.

2015-08-26 | 4655 Print PDF

How To Stop Spam Emails In Cpanel.

Hey! have got over 10 unknown emails in my inbox! what the heck! please does anyone know how to stop spam emails from my account?

Well if you run cpanel email accounts then you must have been a victim at some point to unsolicited emails from spammers, who keep on flooding your personal email accounts on your cpanel.

This sort out email advertisers are not the only culprits, even email subscriptions you have denied access to your inbox will not respect your decision to option out from further email bombardment. Instead they either sell your emails to other internet marketers who know less not to reuse warn out emails. In my case I do get new fresh spam emails in most of my cpanel email accounts, which are majorly from Chinese and some Indians, trying to bait me into their unconventional advert schemes.

All that said, the thing we will be talking about is how to stop spam emails in cpanel, apart from the Apache spam assassin which you can make use of to trigger spam emails filter via your cpanel you can also reinforce this fight with boxtrapper, but first what is SpamAssassin?.

SpamAssassin is a free utility offered to all cpanel Hosting customers to help combat spam. SpamAssassin works by blocking unwanted email addresses before they reach your email's inbox. By default, SpamAssassin is disabled so you must enable it within cPanel to take advantage of it's features. But don't be fooled this baby really cannot do much, as its not a Spam filter, but its a step closer to a kick against spam emails, all you just have to do is combine its function with Boxtrapper to see how they both synchronize to fight against spam emails. Please read further for more insight on this.

How Does SpamAssassin Work?

SpamAssassin is not an email filter, like other spam preventing tools are. Instead, it determines whether an email is spam as soon as it hits the server. SpamAssassin works on the back end of your email server and has 10 different levels of settings to catch spam. When enabled by default, you will be set to 5. This is mid-range.

How does the point system work?

SpamAssassin uses a points based system called "hits" to flag spam emails. When it finds particular spam word characteristics in an email title and body it assigns a point value. If the email exceeds the maximum point value you set, the email is flagged as spam eg 5 by default.

The lower the score you set, the more email will be caught as spam. For example, a setting of 1 means that only one hit needs to be flagged against an email for it to be considered spam. If you set the score higher, more hits will be required on an email for it to be labeled as spam. So, the lower the score, the more emails should be flagged as spam.

We suggest testing the different settings prior to using a higher setting.

How To Setup SpamAssassin

The first step to enabling SpamAssassin is to log into cPanel. Once logged into cPanel, look for the icon called "SpamAssassin" under the Mail section, its between BoxTrapper and Forwarders.