Archive for March, 2016

How to Create a SPAM Filter

Tuesday, March 15th, 2016

Less Spam with GreylistingAhh, spam. Nobody likes spam. As a hosting provider, we really don’t like spam. But there are steps you can take to help protect your inbox from spammers. That’s why we have specific tools available to you in the cPanel interface to deal with spam. Some of these like BoxTrapper we’ve written about before.

SpamAssassin

Preloaded into the cPanel dashboard, SpamAssassin is an open-source tool built to filter and classify emails while blocking spam. Through a combination of subject line and body text analysis, Bayesian filtering, and DNS blacklists, SpamAssassin drastically limits and can  prevent spam from touching your inbox.

Creating a Spam Filter

In the Mail section of your cPanel account, choose Apache SpamAssassin. By default, Apache SpamAssassin is enabled.

Now you’re ready to set up email filters and specify how powerfully you’d like SpamAssassin to gate and vet incoming messages.

First, head to the “Email” section, navigate to “Global Filters,” and select “Create New Filter.”

Then, select “Spam Bar” from the first menu in the “Rules” section and then choose “Contains”from the second menu in that same section.

In that field, enter a spam score using a series of (+++++) symbols, with 5 being an adequate number for an individual user.  Lower numbers here mean a more aggressive spam filter.  Select “Deliver to folder” from the “Actions” section and enter the name of the folder (usually Junk or Spam) to which you would like to direct spam.  We don’t recommend deleting spam with this particular filter

Finally, click “Create” to activate the spam filter and, voila, your first filter is set up! (Be sure to check to occasionally check this folder to ensure items that are NOT spam aren’t being flagged.)

If you are getting spam that has specific patterns in the subject, from or to address or other part of the header, you can filter against these patterns as well.

Webmail Calendars & Contacts

Monday, March 7th, 2016

Calendars and Contacts Setup

With Register4Less's email service, you can maintain your contacts and calendar within your domain-based webmail interface, and access these using your smartphone. This can also be accessed from your desktop's contacts and calendar apps.

To set this up (example given here is iOS 8 on an iPhone), follow these steps:

Tap Settings

Tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars, and then on Under Accounts, tap Add Account

Choose Other for the account type.

How to Set Up Your Calendars

Tap Add CalDav Account

Enter your email address account information:

Server will be in the form of: ahsN.R4L.com:2080 where N is a number.  

To determine your server name, go on your web browser, and type in http://webmail. plus your domain. You will be forwarded to https://ahsN.r4l.com:2096. The N of course will be the actual number of the server, so something like ahs4.R4L.com.

Username is your complete email address.

Password is of course the password you have created the account with. If you're not sure what this is, you can reset the password, but you will then need to change this on any device you use to connect to your email.

Description is optional.  It is simply a text description to differentiate different accounts if you are connecting more than one.

A Note About Port Numbers

In the URLs above, :2080 and :2096 are the port numbers on the server being connected to. 2080 is the port reserved to connect to CalDav, and 2096 is the port for encrypted webmail login.

 

How to Set Up Your Contacts

Tap Add CardDav Account

Enter your email address account information:

 

All of the settings for server, username and password will be the same as for configuring your contacts.