Email filtering
Dedicated Server Manager enables you to filter your email using spam filter, virus filter, or both.
Dedicated Server Manager provides you with virus filters that can be enabled for specific email addresses. When enabled, the virus filter scans each incoming email to that address for known viruses and, if any viruses are found, quarantines the email in the INFECTED directory. Inside each quarantined email is a message id number that enables you to identify the email for manual retrieval.
For spam filtering Dedicated Server Manager uses Spam Assassin. Spam Assassin is a mail filter installed on a mail server that identifies spam. It checks for spam using a large number of pre-set rules that check the header, body, and sender of all e-mail messages sent to your domain mailbox. For more information about Spam Assassin, refer to the following links:
Spam Assassin - Spam Assassin web site.
Spam Assassin rules - A list of all the rules that Spam Assassin currently uses.
Spam Assassin uses a sensitivity scale of 1-10 (1 being very strict, 10 being very loose) for detecting spam.
To enable email filtering:
Click on the Mail link in the navigation area.
Click on the [Details] link next to the required email address.
Click on the Virus Filtering and/or SpamAssassin tick box(es) to enable virus and/or spam filtering for this email address
It is recommended that you use separate folders for both your virus and spam filtering. Click on the Click on the Virus Box and/or Spam Box tick box(es) to create dedicated folders ("INFECTED" and "SPAM", respectively) that are used by the virus and spam filters.
Select the required spam sensitivity rating from the SpamAssassin Level drop-down list. 5 is the default and recommended setting.
Click on the Change button.