Spam
Assassin
TCH provides Spam Assassin as a server side tool to filter
out possible spam mail for e-mail accounts on your web site.
SpamAssassin is disabled by default when your web site is
for configured.
What
is Spam Assassin?
Spam Assassin is a e-mail spam filtering system that sits
side by side with account with us to help block, mark or
filter out mail you don't want.
How
do I enable Spam Assassin?
From cPanel, click on Spam Assassin.
A window displays that will tell you if Spam Assassin is
currently enabled or disabled.
Clicking the boxes to enable or disable Spam Assassin is
how you can turn it on or off.
To configure the Spam Assassin settings click the button
that reads: "Configure Spam Assassin (required to rewrite
subjects)"
How
do I configure Spam Assassin?
If you do not know what it is you are looking at, the next
screen could be a little confusing. To help you understand
here's a break down of what you should see on the screen
and what do do with it:
Your domain name
Your username and password
First and last name of the Account holder
How Do I Configure Spam Assassin?
If you do not know what it is you are looking at, the next screen could be a little confusing. To help you understand here's a break down of what you should see on the screen and what do do with it:
required_hits
The number of e-mails received
before marked as spam.
rewrite_subject
The tells Spam Assassin if it should rewrite
your subject line or not as you define. (1 is yes and
0 is no)
subject_tag
What the spam is marked with in the subject
line. (usually ***SPAM*** or something else that could
be picked up by your own mail filters on your mail client
of choice)
blacklist_from
An e-mail address you definitely want
to be marked as spam. (you could also use *@something.com
to get every e-mail from that address filtered)
whitelist_from
An e-mail address you definitely do NOT
want to be marked as spam. (you could also use *@something.com
to get every e-mail from that address NOT filtered)
Once you're done, just hit save and whatever you defined on
the earlier page will now be in effect. If you picked to rewrite
the subject, then you could now go into your mail client and
write a new "rule" that would filter all mail with
"***SPAM***" to go into a SPAM folder so that you
could check it from time to time making sure you did not get
any false positives.
How
do I use the Spam Box?
You can turn your spam box enable and disable from the same
page as Spam Assassin. It's just that easy! With the recent
upgrades to cPanel, the TotalChoice Hosting team has been
paying more attention to the users of Spam Assassin.
In the previous build you would need to use a imap client
to get to your spam box.
Well not anymore. You can create a "new" e-mail
account that has precisely the same settings as your e-mail
account, but add: "/spam" to the end of the e-mail
account user name. This will retrieve only your Spam Box
mail.
In order for this to be useful, you will want to set up
your e-mail client to deliver this Spam Box mail to a special
folder (perhaps called spam?) automatically.
Customizing
SpamAssassin:
With the latest version of cPanel and Spam Assassin, you
now have the ability to
customize Spam Assassin for your web site.
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