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all accounts in all of my domains under cpanel21 have been getting at least 40emails/day of spam, all are the same emails too, and most of which isnt even picked up by outlook junk email any more.
im sorry if this has been covered, but is there anything i can do?
You can try enabling SpamAssassin via cPanel and adjusting the settings to suit your needs, although SA is far from perfect and spam is a more or less a part of using e-mail these days.
all accounts in all of my domains under cpanel21 have been getting at least 40emails/day of spam, all are the same emails too, and most of which isnt even picked up by outlook junk email any more.
im sorry if this has been covered, but is there anything i can do?
thx!
Some of that may be to a user that doesn't exist on the domain, and you can filter those out at least. Go into Cpanel, Email, and select Default Address. There's a box there that has this text above it: "All unrouted mail will be sent to:"
In that box, put :blackhole: That's a colon, the word "blackhole" and a colon. That will send any mail to "anyuser@yourdomain.com" to the trash before you even see it.
since this morning, only 10, and all into my junk folder!
i think the trick was setting both default addresses to black hole..
i noticed in cpanel that there is also an 'approved list' or something? users have to verify before being able to send email to your domain. may be a pain, but maybe worth if things get really out of hand?
Just a note for anyone that's interested.
Using :fail: is actually less server intensive.
When you use :blackhole:, it takes the email into the server, processes it, and then dumps it to /dev/null
If you use :fail: it stops the email from getting into the server by sending a no user here message. This means there is no processing of the email by the server, thus using less resources.
David
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Do you fear the obsolescence of the metanarrative apparatus of legitimation?
That's assuming you do not set the bounce message. Which of course, most users do without thinking, and it generally makes the problems much, much worse.
My experience is, you cannot prevent Dathorn server to receive email. It will receive and then decide what to do with it (dump, reject, or else). It will not refuse email during smtp connection itself.
I tried :fail:, :blackhole: and /dev/null, and when I send email to address blocked in any of these three methods, Dathorn mail server receives whole mail. Link you gave here explains that :fail: does stop pop3 session, and does not receive email. That woluld be nice if it works that way, but my test showed opposite.
I talked about this with Andrew, and he confirmed that it is not possible that Dathorn mail server rejects mail before it receives it.
Because of that, I had to set MX record for one of the domans to different server, and handle mail separate from DAthorn, since domain was attacked by far too much spam and there was no way to stop pop3 sessions on Dathorn.
I will try to test all this again. Maybe updated Cpanel now works as expected on this manner.
That's a weird setup then.
If i try and send an email to a non-existant email address on one of my accounts on my VPS my mail client pops up an error disallowing me from sending it.
David
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Do you fear the obsolescence of the metanarrative apparatus of legitimation?
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