How To: Change your SpamAssassin filter score.

1. Log into cPanel of the account.
2. Go to the Apache SpamAssassin section, under the email heading.
3. At the bottom of the page, click Configure Apache SpamAssassin.
4. Set the required score.
5. Scroll down to the bottom, click Save.

What is SpamAssassin score?

SpamAssassin analyzes each email and gives it a score. The lower the score, the higher the chance of an email landing in an inbox. The tool can be set to any base value, but most commonly ‘5’ is used. Any score below 5.0 means that an email is good enough to avoid spam filters.

How do you test for SpamAssassin?

Replace [email protected] with your email address on the machine running SpamAssassin. If this message is caught by the filter, by default you will receive a message (see Figure 3.16) from SpamAssassin telling you about the spam message.

How do I whitelist in SpamAssassin?

To safelist individual addresses or domains in SpamAssassin:

1. Open /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf in your favorite editor for system-wide safelisting.
2. Append whitelist_from_rcvd {address or domain you want to safelist preceded by “*@”} {domain name which must be present in the Received headers}

Is SpamAssassin any good?

Although SpamAssassin isn’t a perfect tool and won’t eliminate all spam, it does do a decent job when configured to your specifications. If you have cPanel hosting, I would certainly recommend you give it a try since it doesn’t cost you any extra money.

Who uses SpamAssassin?

Companies Currently Using SpamAssassin

How do I configure SpamAssassin?

How to Configure the SpamAssassin Score Setting

1. Click the ‘Spam Filters’ link on the main cPanel dashboard. Click on “Spam Filters”
2. Click on the ‘Spam Threshold Score’ link.
3. Adjust the Spam Threshold Score to your desired level.

How do you restart SpamAssassin?

There is no component to ‘restart’ SpamAssassin by-default. You would have to configure some type of monitoring system that’d run to monitor software programs on the system and start them again if they are down.

How do I increase spam score in cPanel?

Does Google use SpamAssassin?

While Gmail may not use SpamAssassin, the tool can help you catch stop words or bad practices.

How good is SpamAssassin?

How do I change my spam score in cPanel?