Blocking SPAM using SpamAssassin

If you aren't using enterprise spam filtering software, like our SpamExperts platform you may receive a lot of spam emails.
One way you can reduce the amount of spam you receive on a cPanel server is to use SpamAssassin. SpamAssassin is inbuilt into cPanel.

1. To use it, simply log into the cPanel account you want to adjust the filtering on and click on "Spam Filters":2. The default behaviour of SpamAssassin is to simply mark emails as spam by adding to the subject "***SPAM***" If you find it's missing emails that are spam, you can configure the filtering. This can be done by selecting "Configure Spam Box Settings".3. Here, you can put email addresses that you want to be filtered as spam. You can also use wildcard notation to block all subdomains. Such as *.tkor *.spamsite.com4. Once you have the rules set up. You can also set SpamAssassin to automatically delete emails that exceed the spam score. The "Spam Threshold" score can be configured by clicking on the below: