Horde Webmail Filter Question

[Russ]

I have an email that is spam, but not picked up by spam assassin. I want to add to "blacklist." I have several eamil addresses. If I add to black list to main account (afddress with cPanel username), will that filter all my addresses, or do I need to manually add to all addresses? Thanks.

[TCH-Andy]

I'd have a look at training spamassasin and then you will help spam assassin learn on your account.

[Russ]

Thanks for the prompt reply, Andy.

 

I think that all of that (Perl, etc.) is way beyond my capabilities.

 

What I was hoping for was a way to add emails to blacklist that would apply to all my email accounts on a domain without having to individually add to blacklist for each email. I only have a few getting thru, and I have outlook set up to dump them in the junk box, but if I could filter them on the server it would be helpful.

Edited December 24, 2006 by TCH-Bruce

[TCH-Bruce]

There is only one configuration file for spam assassin per domain so blacklisting an email address will black list it for the entire domain.

[Russ]

Thanks, Bruce.

 

In the meantime, I have been playing around with cPanel webmail interface.

 

Up to this point, I have been adding the spam addresses to the black list thru the filter settings in the horde mail folder. But now I notice that there is a way to add email addresses to a spam assassin blacklist in this "Spam Message Filter Configuration" page in cPanel. Are these the same blacklists, or are they different ones? I presume that adding an address to blacklist thru the "Spam Message Filter Configuration" page is the best way to go, correct?

 

Thanks again!

[TCH-Bruce]

I believe the one in Horde is for the email address you are accessing Horde with. The one in cPanel under Spam Assassin would be for the entire domain.

 

You can also just edit the file directly. It is located in the .spamassassin folder of your domain and the file is called user_prefs

 

This will work provided Spam Assassin is turned on.

[Russ]

Any link that you might have explaining how to edit that file?

[TCH-Thomas]

Hi Russ,

 

Providing you are talking about user_prefs and have a few blacklisted/whitelisted addresses in it already, you could:

 

download the file

open it with notepad

copy/paste the blacklisted/whitelisted address lines you already have in it

modify those lines with the new addresses

then save and re upload it.

[PeterPeter]

You should be able to edit it from within cpanel/file manger/directory it is in. Select the file, not the icon and then click on edit on the top righthand listing. Don't forget to save it.

[TCH-Bruce]

Peter is correct, use the editor in File Manager to edit the file. No need to download it.

 

As Thomas says if you've added an address to the SA black-list you will see the format in the file. If you haven't the format is as such:

 

blacklist_from email_address

 

You can use wild cards to block an entire domain

 

blacklist_from *@domain.ext

[Russ]

Thanks everyone!

 

Happy holidays!

[TCH-Thomas]

A little addition to my post...

 

The reason I like to download the file and do the editing is because that the online editor only have x number of fields you can edit/add to.

Some time ago I needed to add more addresses to the whitelist, but since there was no more empty fields for me to enter the addresses in, so I downloaded the file and pasted the addresses in to it.

[TCH-Bruce]

But Thomas, you can use the editor in File Manager to edit the file. No need to download it.

[TCH-Thomas]

It is now I am supposed to say something smart but I can´t think of anything but...

 

I didn´t think of that when I edited the file.