ARYA Windows Web Hosting: Protecting Mailboxes from Spammers - Virus in Plesk Windows
To protect your mailbox from undesirable correspondence, do not publish your e-mail address on Internet forums and switch on the server-side spam filter provided by the Spam Assassin software.
- To Switching On Spam Assassin Spam Filter, First login to Plesk Control Panel.
1- At the main page, click "" Mail Accounts "" icon.
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2- Click on your email address.
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3- Click "" Spam Filter "" icon.
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4- Make sure the "" Switch on spam filtering "" box has been checked.
5- Make sure the "" Use server-wide setting "" box has been checked.
6- By default, the filter sensitivity is set so that all messages that score 7 or more points are classified as spam.
- If you receive lots of spam messages with the current setting, to make filter more sensitive, try setting a lesser value in the The score that a message must receive to qualify as spam box; for example, 5.
- If you are missing your e-mails because your spam filter thinks they are junk, try reducing filter sensitivity by setting a higher value in the The score that a message must receive to qualify as spam box; for example, 6.
7-1- "" What to do with spam mail "". If you are sure that your spam filter is accurate, you may want to set the filter to automatically delete all incoming messages recognized as spam. To do this, select the Delete option.
7-2-3- If you wish to filter mail with the software on your local computer, select the Mark as spam and store in mailbox option, and then specify how spam filter should mark the messages recognized as spam. "X-Spam-Flag: YES" and "X-Spam-Status: Yes" headers are added to the message source by default, and if you want, the spam filter will also include a specific text string to the beginning of Subject line. To include a desired combination of symbols or words to the message subject, type it into the Add the following text to the beginning of subject of each message recognized as spam box. If you do not want the spam filter to modify message subject, leave this box blank. If you want to include into the subject line the number of points that messages score, type _SCORE_ in this box.
7-4- "" Spam detection alert text "". If you want spam filter to include a text into e-mail messages marked as spam, type the text into this box.
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- "" Trusted languages and locales "". E-mail messages written in the specified languages and with the defined character sets will pass the spam filter and will not be marked as spam.
8- Select your favorite languages, then click add.
9- Select your favorite defined character, then click add.
10- Click OK to save the settings.
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11- If you want to be sure that you will not miss e-mail from specific senders, click the White List tab, and then add e-mail addresses or entire domains to the spam filter‘s White List:
12- Type the e-mail addresses into the E-mail addresses box. Place each address separate with a coma, a colon, or a white space. You can use an asterisk (*) as a substitute for a number of letters, and question mark (?) as a substitute for a single letter. For example: address@mycompany.com, user?@mycompany.com, *@mycompany.com. Specifying *@mycompany.com will add to the white list all e-mail addresses that are under the mycompany.com mail domain.
13- To save the entries you added, click Add.
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14- If you do not want to receive e-mail from specific domains or individual senders anymore, Then:
15- Select the email address, then click the Remove.
16- If you do not want to receive e-mail from specific domains or individual senders, click the Black List tab, and then add the respective entries to the spam filter‘s Black List:
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17- Type the e-mail addresses into the E-mail addresses box. Place each address separate with a coma, a colon, or a white space. You can use an asterisk (*) as a substitute for a number of letters, and question mark (?) as a substitute for a single letter. For example: address@spammers.net, user?@spammers.net, *@spammers.net. Specifying *@spammers.net will add to the Black List all e-mail addresses that are under the mail domain spammers.net.
18- To save the entries you added, click Add.
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19- If you need to receive e-mail from specific domains or individual senders, Then:
20- Select the email address, then click the Remove.
- For complete this process, may you need to active Anti Virus protection.
21- Please click the email address link and back to email address management page.
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- In this page you will find that "" Spam Filter "" is activated.
22- For activate "" Anti Virus "" protection service, click on Anti Virus icon.
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- In this page, you are able to active Anti Virus service for incoming (23) and outgoing (24) mail activity.
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23- For incoming mail, click drop down menu and select type of protection.
24- For outgoing mail, click drop down menu and select type of protection.
25- Click OK to save the settings.
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- At the end, make sure the Spam Filter and Anti Virus service to be active like Pic.13
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