{"id":1247,"date":"2017-05-13T18:30:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2021-03-16T20:26:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:26:51","slug":"how-to-enable-and-configure-apache-spamassassin-within-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/how-to-enable-and-configure-apache-spamassassin-within-cpanel\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable and configure Apache SpamAssassin in cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApache SpamAssassin is an open source Apache Project its user-friendly email utility which examines incoming mail for different spam characteristics, and the source was first made widely available back in April 2001 where it was imported into Sourceforge. Apache SpamAssassin uses various network tests and spam filtering to get an overall score in order to decide whether the mail should be considered as spam or not.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Why users cant see Apache SpamAssassin in their cPanel account\n<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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there are two things you have to check on WHM to verify that Apache SpamAssassin is enabled to the cPanel users:<\/p>\n

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  1. Login to your cPanel\u00a0WHM<\/strong>\u00a0control panel as root.<\/li>\n
  2. Navigate to\u00a0Home<\/strong>\u00a0\u00bbServer Configuration<\/strong>\u00a0\u00bbTweak Settings<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Make sure that the setting\u00a0Enable Apache SpamAssassin\u2122 spam filter<\/em>\u00a0is set to On \u201cThis should be default value\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. Click\u00a0Save button<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Other cause is that may be its not enabled on Feature Manager for the packages, to do so :<\/p>\n

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    1. Login to your cPanel\u00a0WHM<\/strong>\u00a0control panel as root.<\/li>\n
    2. Navigate to\u00a0Home<\/strong>\u00a0\u00bbPackages<\/strong>\u00a0\u00bbFeature Manager<\/strong>\u00a0\u00bbFeature Lists.<\/strong><\/li>\n
    3. Under Manage feature list choose the packages that not displaying Apache SpamAssassin \u201cexample,Default\u201d. And click\u00a0Edit button<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
    4. From the list make sure that Apache SpamAssassin\u2122 option is checked , you repeat the steps for each packages you want.<\/li>\n
    5. Click\u00a0Save button<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      After you make sure that you check both Features List and Enable Apache SpamAssassin in Tweak Settings , your cPanel account should be able to see the SpamAssassin icon on Email section from cPanel home dashboard.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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      How to configure SpamAssassin in cPanel<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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      1. Login to your cPanel<\/strong> control panel.<\/li>\n\t
      2. From Email Section<\/strong> on Home dashboard cPanel click Apache SpamAssassin<\/strong> icon.\n\n


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      3. From Apache SpamAssassin\u2122 page click Enable Apache SpamAssassin\u2122 button<\/strong>. and you will get confirmation Apache SpamAssassin\u2122 is now enabled<\/em><\/span> message\n\n


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      4. Now you can configure the Filter from the same Page :Setting Spam Auto-Delete option help you to automatically removes the emails which meet or exceed the spam score set. In order to set it,You can set the required score in a drop-down menu (from 1 to 10). The higher the number, the more conservative the setting. To enable the filter, simply click on Auto-Delete Spam button<\/strong>. To disable the filter, click on Disable Auto-Delete Spam button.<\/strong>\n


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      5. Apache SpamAssassin Configuration:\n\n
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        1. To add sender to Apache SpamAssassin Blacklist : you can fill the list of blacklist_from<\/strong><\/li>\n\t
        2. If SpamAssassin often blocks certain email senders and marks its mails as spam (incorrectly), it is possible to add the sender to whitelist in whitelist_from<\/strong>. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Blacklist<\/p>\n


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          Whitelist<\/p>\n


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          Both whitelist and blacklist addresses accept file-glob-style patterns, so user@example.com, *@example.com or *.example.com will all work. Specifically * and ? are allowed, but all other metacharacters are not. Regular expressions are not used for security reasons. \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Apache SpamAssassin is an open source Apache Project its user-friendly email utility which examines incoming mail for different spam characteristics, and the source was first made widely available back in April 2001 where it was imported into Sourceforge. Apache SpamAssassin uses various network tests and spam filtering to get an overall score in order to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[32,4,151,170,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2834,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/2834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xsofthost.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}