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09-22-2004, 09:48 AM
Default email address is: username@yourdomain.com
(same username you use to login to your cpanel.)
Alias email account is any email account you setup in your cpanel.
(me@mywebsite.com.)
Some tips to reduce spam.
1. Stop all spam to your account
Set your default account to :blackhole: ( include the ::
2. Then setup a new alias email account and only tell your friends about that account, refrain from using that email account to register on any website for anything. If that alias account receives too much spam eventually just remove it and setup another email alias account.
3. If you do not want to :blackhole: your default email account then anything@yourdomain.com will be delivered to your email system.
To reduce spam to this account check the incoming spam and to whom it is sent to, it could be webmaster@yourdomain.com and if you don't wish to have that as an email account setup a forwarder in your cpanel
webmaster@yourdomain.com >>>>>>>>> :blackhole:
4. Setup some filters, your Cpanel system has a filter system that allows you to block or delete emails from certain senders.
5. Setup spam assassin, your Cpanel system is setup with Spam Assassin and only takes a few mouse clicks to be operational for your account.
6. Transfer your domain registration to digitalhost and purchase anonyminity control for your domain, this prevents your domain being listed with your details on the public whois system.
Domain Registration is $13.99 per year, anonyminity $13.99 per year.
Digitalhost is asked many times why do we have virus's on our mail servers, the fact is we have a fully comprehensive anti-virus system which stops our mail servers becoming infected, but this does not stop spammers sending you an email with a packaged virus, the spammers send these virus's as a zipped package, imagine if we set our mail servers to remove all emails with zipped packages, no clients would be able to send or receive zipped files of any kind.
We have also been asked why don't we block spammers, the problem is that spammers use other public mail servers, the same mail servers that your ISP sends emails to your account, if we blocked the IP's of these servers you would not receive any emails, worse still other clients on our servers on the same ISP network as you would also lose legitimate emails.
Digitalhost has been testing for many months an individual anti-spam system which can be setup for each client on an individual account basis, this new system uses the responder method which requests the sender respond when they send you an email, because most spammers are just fake or robots they never answer the responder and you don't receive the spam, we are in the final stages of testing and this program will be available for all digitalhost clients, we are still working out the costs and some final programming changes.
Please don't hesitate to request help to setup any aspect of your email account system on our servers in your cpanel.
(same username you use to login to your cpanel.)
Alias email account is any email account you setup in your cpanel.
(me@mywebsite.com.)
Some tips to reduce spam.
1. Stop all spam to your account
Set your default account to :blackhole: ( include the ::
2. Then setup a new alias email account and only tell your friends about that account, refrain from using that email account to register on any website for anything. If that alias account receives too much spam eventually just remove it and setup another email alias account.
3. If you do not want to :blackhole: your default email account then anything@yourdomain.com will be delivered to your email system.
To reduce spam to this account check the incoming spam and to whom it is sent to, it could be webmaster@yourdomain.com and if you don't wish to have that as an email account setup a forwarder in your cpanel
webmaster@yourdomain.com >>>>>>>>> :blackhole:
4. Setup some filters, your Cpanel system has a filter system that allows you to block or delete emails from certain senders.
5. Setup spam assassin, your Cpanel system is setup with Spam Assassin and only takes a few mouse clicks to be operational for your account.
6. Transfer your domain registration to digitalhost and purchase anonyminity control for your domain, this prevents your domain being listed with your details on the public whois system.
Domain Registration is $13.99 per year, anonyminity $13.99 per year.
Digitalhost is asked many times why do we have virus's on our mail servers, the fact is we have a fully comprehensive anti-virus system which stops our mail servers becoming infected, but this does not stop spammers sending you an email with a packaged virus, the spammers send these virus's as a zipped package, imagine if we set our mail servers to remove all emails with zipped packages, no clients would be able to send or receive zipped files of any kind.
We have also been asked why don't we block spammers, the problem is that spammers use other public mail servers, the same mail servers that your ISP sends emails to your account, if we blocked the IP's of these servers you would not receive any emails, worse still other clients on our servers on the same ISP network as you would also lose legitimate emails.
Digitalhost has been testing for many months an individual anti-spam system which can be setup for each client on an individual account basis, this new system uses the responder method which requests the sender respond when they send you an email, because most spammers are just fake or robots they never answer the responder and you don't receive the spam, we are in the final stages of testing and this program will be available for all digitalhost clients, we are still working out the costs and some final programming changes.
Please don't hesitate to request help to setup any aspect of your email account system on our servers in your cpanel.