How To Enable Spam Protection in cPanel

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cPanel Tutorial: Paper Lantern Walkthrough
I. How To Log In To cPanel
II. How To Create an Email Account in cPanel
III. How To Set Your Default Address in cPanel
IV. How To Set up an Autoresponder in cPanel
V. How To Set up Email Forwarding in cPanel
VI. How To Set up Email Filters in cPanel
VII. How To Enable Spam Protection in cPanel
VIII. How To Add an MX Entry in cPanel
IX. How To Use Webmail from Within cPanel
X. How To Change Your cPanel Password
XI. How To Update Your Contact Information in cPanel
XII. How To Change Your cPanel Theme
XIII. How To Change the Primary Language in cPanel
XIV. How To Add a Record With the DNS Zone Editor in cPanel
XV. How To Back up Your Website in cPanel
XVI. How To Use the Disk Space Usage Tool in cPanel
XVII. How To Create Additional FTP Accounts in cPanel
XVIII. How To Password Protect a Directory in cPanel
XIX. How To Use the IP Blocker in cPanel
XX. How To Set up Hotlink Protection in cPanel
XXI. How To Create a Subdomain in cPanel
XXII. How To Create an Addon Domain in cPanel
XXIII. How To Create a Domain Alias in cPanel
XXIV. How To Set up Domain Redirects in cPanel
XXV. How To Create a MySQL Database in cPanel
XXVI. How To Use the Index Manager in cPanel
XXVII. How To Create Custom Error Pages in cPanel
XXVIII. How To Set up a Cron Job in cPanel
  1. This tutorial assumes you’ve already logged in to cPanel, and are starting on the home screen.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--01
  2. Now let’s learn how to enable spam protection.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--02
  3. Click the BoxTrapper icon.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--03
  4. Box Trapper protects your inbox from spam by requiring all email senders who aren’t on your Whitelist, to reply to a verification email before you can receive their mail.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--04
  5. To enable BoxTrapper for an email address, click “Manage”.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--05
  6. Then click the “Enable” button.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--06
  7. BoxTrapper has now been enabled for this address. Click “Go Back”.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--07
  8. Next you’ll want to configure your BoxTrapper settings. Click the “Configure Settings” link.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--08
  9. You can set various options here, including auto-whitelisting for addresses you send email to.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--09
  10. Next click “Edit Confirmation Messages”.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--10
  11. From here you can edit the standard confirmation messages already setup for you.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--11
  12. Next, click “Edit White/Black/Ignore Lists”.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--12
  13. From here you can add addresses to your Whitelist, Blacklist, and Ignore list.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--13
  14. Once you have BoxTrapper setup the way you want, you’ll notice a huge reduction in spam.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--14
  15. Another option for controlling spam is to use SpamAssassin.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--15
  16. You can use SpamAssassin in conjunction with BoxTrapper for maximum spam control, or you can use BoxTrapper on its own, or SpamAssassin on its own.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--16
  17. Click to Enable SpamAssassin.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--17
  18. Then click “Go Back”.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--18
  19. You’ll now want to configure SpamAssassin, so click the “Configure” button.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--19
  20. From here you can setup your blacklist with email addresses you KNOW are spam …cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--20
  21. … and can add email addresses to your whitelist … addresses you KNOW are NOT spam.cpanel-paperlantern-7-spam--21

 

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