How to increase spam score limit in cPanel?
The Spam Threshold Score is the limit that can be set to identify spam messages in your email account(s).
You can create an email filter that sorts and redirects incoming spam. This is useful if, for example, your hosting provider has not included Apache Spam Assassin in your cPanel account.
A lower score is more restrictive. In other words, an auto-deletion score of 1 is very aggressive, and will delete many messages.
An auto-deletion score of 10 is more permissive, and will let more messages through without deleting them.Any message that has a score greater than the required_score value is marked as spam.
The following steps needs to follow for increasing spam limit in cPanel
- Login into cPanel.
- Click Apache Spam Assassin under Mail.
- To ensure that Spam Assassin is enabled.
- In bottom of the page,Click on Configure Spam Assassin button, it will take you to Spam Assassin configuration page, in that you can see field required_score.
- In required_score field,type the score limit value. 5 is the default setting. The higher the number, the more conservative the setting for Spam Assassin.
- Once you have changed new value for score limit ,then click Save button to finalize the change.
For example, to filter all of the mail to which Apache Spam Assassin has assigned a spam score of five or higher, enter +++++ in the text box.
- Apache Spam Assassin examines every email message for spam characteristics, and then assigns it an overall score based on the number of spam-related traits found within the message.
- The lower the spam score, the more aggressive the spam filter will be.
- A spam score of five (
+++++) is a suitable setting for a single user. - ISPs should use a higher score.