SpamAssasin

[abcon]

In the eMail section on the cPanel you can turn SpamAssassin on or off. Is there any way to tweak the filtering as about 50% of obvious spam continues to get thru.

Also on another host, which is nailing about 90% of the Spam with SpamAssassin, they only alter the subject with a pre appended {Spam?} in the subject instead of the long message each time in the body.

Is this a different version of the same program?

[Brangwyn]

Likely to be the same version of SpamAssasin, there is an option in there to add text to the email subject. It's all basically driven by a config file I'm not sure though whether CPanel supports each user having their own config file (my guess is it wouldn't)

[abcon]

What about this Admins? Anyway we can tweak a config file?

I have seen on other threads in the forum where users are submitting message headers here to be added to some database, but this seems like a lot of manual work for both the users and the Admins. I don't think it will work in the long run as a viable solution.

Hey, there must be some smart viewers out there with some ideas to help?

[Brangwyn]

Those email spam posts I believe mainly relate to the H-Sphere users, unlike Cpanel where you have one mail server per server (afaik I'm not a Cpanel customer) H-Sphere has 3 mail-servers shared between 30+ servers which means the load is a lot higher and any spam that can be trapped will help tremendously.

[abcon]

Hi folks:

Maybe this is the ISP's version of "tough love" but I eventually found the user config file for spamassasin. It's the user_prefs in the .spamassasin directory. It tells you all you need to know or where to go to find out about changing the user over-rides and now I'm a happy camper again.

Well almost...