Boxtrapper

[queenpictoria]

Hello.

 

I have been doing some checking on SpamAssassin, and found a tutorial.

In the tutorial I was directed to something in the cPanel that is not there (at least I could not see it).

 

I see "Boxtrapper". Is this the new SpamAssassin?

I need to program my webmail to catch and stop as much spam as possible.

 

It is amazing that even if I don't give out the email, I get spam.

 

Anyway, I need some guidance on how to set up Boxtrapper if it is infact the new SpamAssassin.

 

Thanks.

[TCH-Thomas]

Please note while reading this that I can be wrong about this...

 

Boxtrapper is a part of cpanel that TCH has chosen not to use for various reasons. Therefor it may exist on some servers cpanels while on others it has not been included.

[queenpictoria]

Please note while reading this that I can be wrong about this...

 

Boxtrapper is a part of cpanel that TCH has chosen not to use for various reasons. Therefor it may exist on some servers cpanels while on others it has not been included.

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Thanks for letting me know about Boxtrapper.

So then now I am back to square one. I am wanting to setup an anti-spam program of some kind. I am tired of the drugs and sex solicitation.

 

What does TCH offer? I don't see the SpamAssassin.

The tutorial mentions an "Email" location with a button at the bottom of some

page I cannot find.

 

I don't know what they are talking about.

 

Please be patient with me about this. I want to do this correctly.

 

Any direction is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

queenpictoria

[TCH-Don]

It is amazing that even if I don't give out the email, I get spam.

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April, you have an email link on your web site,

for questions@yourdomain

so you will get spam addressed to that addy

 

and spammers will just try any thing @yourdomain

unless you set your catchall addy to :fail:

And setup an e-mail account and forward alias addys to it.

[stevevan]

You can also encrypt your email addresses in your site by visiting this site. I use it and have very, very little spam coming to any of my accounts.

[TCH-Bruce]

SpamAssassin is (or should be) the last choice under email in cPanel (see image)

[TCH-Thomas]

Addition to Bruces post...

If there is no spamassassin where Bruce says, submit a ticket and they will look in to it for you.

[cajunman4life]

Hey Bruce, what version of cpanel you got? I'm on Server82 and I've got 9.9.9-stable 15. I know others on TCH have version 10+... I know cpanel pushes out their own updates but sheesh, seems like mine is a bit behind.

[TCH-Bruce]

On my personal account I have 10.2.0-RELEASE 82

[cajunman4life]

On my personal account I have 10.2.0-RELEASE 82

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Is there any way to "speed up" the cpanel updates? lol just curious, I have no real issues or anything, just like to be "up to date".

[TCH-Bruce]

I don't think there is. The one on my personal account is a release candidate and not a stable version. So just wait it out, the servers will be updated as soon as they are sure there are no problems.

[cajunman4life]

Thanks Bruce... I forget the servers I manage aren't exactly "production" and it wouldn't kill me if they came down because of an unstable package. TCH, on the other hand, needs to keep things sane on the servers. Thanks again!

[Diogo]

One way to use SpamAssassin to prevent spam from getting to your mailbox is configure it to had a tag to the topic field (somethin like [sPAM]) and then just filter the messages that contain that tag using your client.

 

For instance, you can setup a rule in Outlook that sends all the messages that contain the tag to your trash folder. Or, in Horde, you can setup a similar filter.

[queenpictoria]

SpamAssassin is (or should be) the last choice under email in cPanel (see image)

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Hello Bruce,

 

I see your cPanel.

My cPanel does not have SpamAssassin.

 

Thanks,

 

queenpictoria

[TCH-Don]

Please open a help ticket

so the techs can look into this.