Mail Filters & SPAM

Log in to your cPanel account. In the Email section, click on Global Email Filters. Under Current Filters are displayed all existing filters. Click Edit next to the appropriate one. Make the desired changes to the filter. Click on Save.

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.

It is hard to stop spam email entirely but you can filter it, discard it, deliver it to the selected folder, etc. How to Create a User Level Email Filter? Log in to your cPanel account. In the Email section, click on Email Filters. Under Filters by Users, you can see all existing email accounts. Click on Manage Filters next to the appropriate one. Click on Create a New Filter. Enter a name for the filter in the Filter Name input box. You can filter email with many options in the filter rules. If you want to deal with an email containing a word such as Lottery or 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. Now click on Create.

Log in to your cPanel account. In the Email section, click on Global Email Filters. Under Current Filters are displayed all existing filters. Click Delete next to the appropriate one. Now click on Delete Filter to remove your filter.

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.