Create a spam email filter In cPanel

In spam email filter option its helps block unwanted mails and e-mail filters to block certain messages based on conditions.

Apache SpamAssassin™

This option is already preloaded into your cPanel dashboard and this SpamAssassin is an open source tool which is built to filter out and classify emails while blocking spam. Even though the combination of subject line and body text analysis, Bayesian filtering, and DNS blacklists, SpamAssassin extremely limits and can prevent spam from touching your inbox.

What is Spam Email Filter?

A spam filter is a program which is used to detect unsolicited and unwanted email and prevent those messages from getting to a user's inbox. Like other types of filtering programs, a spam filter looks for certain criteria on which it bases judgments. Unsolicited commercial email (UCE) is the digital junk mail which is also known as spam. At the very least UCE is a problem and at its worst an access point for viruses and malicious code. Since you are in control you can view it because spam is an everpresent problem for most business and individuals.

But how does an email spam filter work?

In email spam filter a filtering solution is applied to your email system that uses a set of protocols to determine which of your incoming messages are spam and which are not.

There are several different types of spam filters available:

Content filters – Here it reviews the content within a message to determine if it is spam or not

Header filters – In here it reviews the email header in search of falsified information

General blacklist filters – It stops all emails that come from a blacklisted file of known spammers

Rules-based filters – Here it uses user-defined criteria – such as specific senders or specific wording in the subject line or body – to block spam

Permission filters – Here it requires anyone sending a message to be pre-approved by the recipient

Challenge-response filters – It requires anyone sending a message to enter a code in order to gain permission to send email

Create a spam email filter

To create a spam filter, perform the following steps:

1. Kindly follow the cPanel >> Home >> Email >> Apache SpamAssassin or spam filters option.

2. Enabled the automatically delete the New spam

3. Setup the Auto-Deleted to set score the Incoming mail spamming level

4. After setting the score and give the update auto-Delete

5. Addition Option for Blacklist or whitelist Email ID and Domain name.

5.Below two option Edit Spam whitelist setting and Edit Spam Blacklist setting.

6. Add the blacklist Email or domain from the Add A New "blacklist_from" Iteam

After completed the setup automatically email blacklist get started.