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How to Create an Account Level/Global Email Filter in cPanel to Fight Spam

It’s hard to stop spam email entirely but you can filter it, discard it, deliver it to the selected folder, etc. How to Create an Account Level/Global Email Filter? Log in to your cPanel account. In the Email section, click on Global Email Filters. Click on Create a New Filter. Enter a name for the filter in the Filter Name input box. The filter rules come with many options for filtering email. Should you want to deal with an email that contains a word such as Lottery or any other words, select Body in the first list box and select Contains in the second one. From the Actions drop-down menu, select Discard Message. Click on Create.

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August 28, 2023

How to Enable Apache SpamAssassin and SpamBox in cPanel

Apache SpamAssassin is a mail filter that identifies spam. An intelligent email filter uses various tests to identify unsolicited bulk email, more commonly known as spam. These tests examine email headers and content to classify emails with advanced statistical methods. Log in to your cPanel Account. In the Email section, click on Spam Filters. Toggle Process New Emails and Mark them as Spam to enable it. If the knob/toggle is greyed out, this indicates that Apache SpamAssassin is disabled. Enable SpamBox by clicking on Move New Spam to a Separate Folder (Spam Box). From now on, spam messages with a spam score of 5 or higher will be automatically removed by Spam Assassin.


August 28, 2023

How to Enable BoxTrapper in cPanel

BoxTrapper requires all email senders not on your Whitelist to respond to verification emails. It protects you from spam. If you want to get rid of unwanted emails, enable Boxtrapper either on all emails or just selected emails and configure it. Log in to your cPanel Account, In the Email section, click on BoxTrapper. On the BoxTrapper’s page, you see a list of your emails under the Account heading and the status of BoxTrapper under the Status heading. Choose Manage. On the BoxTrapper’s Manage page, if the status is Disabled, Choose Enable.


August 28, 2023