How do I Enable Spam Assassin for my domain name ?

Enabling the SpamAssassin in the Cpanel Linux Reseller Web Hosting Control Panel in order to prevent from spam mails. Upcoming procedure will help for enabling the SpamAssassin in your domain name.

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Procedure

Linux Web Hosting Email SpamAssassin Enabling Procedure

Please follow the below procedure inorder to enable SpamAssassin for your domain,

i) Login to your cPanel using username and password.
ii) Click on SpamAssassin under Mail Feature.

Click the “Enable SpamAssassin” button on the SpamAssassin home screen.

Screen Shots

Refer Screen Shots

Login Page of Cpanel
Login page of Cpanel Interface
Click on enable SpamAssassin
Configure Apache SpamAssassin

Troubleshooting FAQs

Email SpamAssassin Troubleshooting FAQs

Need to delete a spam mails automatically

Solution :

Need to blacklist/whitelist all the mails from the particular email id

Solution :

Follow the below procedure to blacklist any Email ids or domains from your cpanel,

1. Click on SpamAssassin option under mail,
2. Enable SpamAssassin
3. Enable Spam Box,
4. Click on Configure SpamAssassin
5. To block all the mails from a particular domain , give *@domainname.com [ex. *@gmail.com ] in Blacklist_from option.
6. Click on Save

Follow the below procedure to Whitelist any Email ids or domains from your cpanel,

SPAM mails Reasons And Action

The possibility of such a spam origination could be in two locations

1. A remote attacker sends email with your user name and password
2. It originated from the system where this email id has been configured

We suggested the following;

1. Change the password of the email to a stronger one
2. Remove the email id
3. Secure the network which uses this email id

why this is happening ?

1. The passwords of emails might be weak that it makes easier for an attacker to crack the password and then send mails thro it.
2. The network which uses the email id is infected

The steps that has to be taken is

1. Changing the password of all cpanels, emails etc
2. Identifying any issues in the network and fixing it

I am Getting Remote Mail Server IP Listed in Spam DB

Some bounce back messages the error clearly shows that the IP of the remote mail server is listed in spamcop ( or) other spam database. Due to the recent strict rules in our spam setting the mails are getting rejected when they are from infected IP and also IP is listed in spam databases.

For this you can ask the recepient server to contact the sapm database to get delist in order to receive mails.