How do I use the Spam Filter tool on your cPanel formula?

Procédure

What is Spam Filter?

This interface lets you configure the parameters of the Spam Filter (powered by Apache SpamAssassin) for your account. Spam filters identify and sort or delete unsolicited email. This interface also lets you configure your whitelist and blacklist settings.

How do I configure Spam Filter on cPanel?

You can access"Spam Filter" by going to your cPanel interface and clicking on"Spam Filter" in the"E-mail" section.

Process new e-mails and mark them as Spam

You can set "Process New Emails and Mark them as Spam " to active in order to examine each new message for spam characteristics and assign them a spam score.

The score is used to determine the likelihood of a message containing spam. The"Move New Spam to a Separate Folder (Spam Box)" and "Automatically Delete New Spam (Auto-Delete) " functions require "Process New Emails and Mark them as Spam" to be active .

How to set the Antispam threshold

You can define the antispam score by going to "Spam Threshold Score". Note that the lower the antispam score, the more aggressive it is. However, a higher value, such as 10, is passive and will only label as spam messages with a score higher than 10.

You can define a threshold for anti-spam using the following procedure:

Click on "Spam Threshold Score". You will be redirected to the interface for modifying the score.

Select the desired value from the menu and click on "Update Scoring options" to update the threshold.

How do I move emails considered Spam to a separate folder?

To do this, activate "Automatically Delete New Spam (Auto-Delete)". This will send all emails considered to be Spam to a specific folder. This feature preserves emails that SpamAssassin may mistakenly classify as Spam.

How do I empty the Spam Box folder?

You can empty the Spam Box folder or delete selected messages. To do this, click on "Spam Box" to be redirected to the relevant interface.

On this interface, you can configure the following settings:

• Activate (1): Activate Spam Box.
• Empty the Spam Box Folder for user(2): Empty the Spam Box folder for a specific user.
• Empty All Spam Box Folder (3): Empty all spam for all email addresses attached to this account.
• Manage Email Disk Usage (4): Allows you to manage disk usage and delete the oldest spam emails.

How do I configure automatic deletion settings?

You can request automatic deletion of emails considered to be spam. To do this, click on "Configure autodelete setting".

Activate automatic deletion of unwanted emails and specify the threshold value for automatic deletion.

Conclusion

You are now able to manage and use the Spam Filter tool available on your cPanel interface. You can change this configuration at any time to suit your needs.