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How to Change the Outgoing Mail IP in DirectAdmin?

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Occasionally with reseller hosting, one client can cause problems if the accounts are not sufficiently isolated from one another. One such case is when one client becomes hacked with spam-sending malware and causes the outgoing mail IP to become blocked. The correct approach to take is to immediately do whatever it takes to stop the […]

How to Whitelist or Blacklist Emails cPanel’s email filters?

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In the previously covered article How to set/configure Spam Filters in cPanel? We have covered the full feature of the Spam Filters option in cPanel. This article will cover how to whitelist the email addresses to bypass the Spam Filters and how to blacklist addresses to avoid continuous spamming on the server giving you greater […]

How to set/configure Spam Filters in cPanel?

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cPanel Spam Filters are powered by Apache SpamAssassin™; as per the configuration of Email Filters, you can set up the action taken if the configured condition gets true. In the Spam Filters, you can either categorize the received email in a separate Spam Box or automatically delete the email from the server. 1. Log in […]

What is Spamvertised or Spamvertising?

What is Spamvertising? Spamvertising is the practice of sending E-mail spam, advertising a website. The word is a portmanteau of the words “spam” and “advertising”. It also refers to vandalizing blogs, online forums or wikis with hyperlinks in order to get a higher search engine ranking for the vandal’s website. Spamvertisers insert links to their […]

What are Microsoft’s email services? Microsoft’s email service consists of hotmail.com, outlook.com, msn.com and live.com domains. As these are very popular email service,s you may eventually experience an issue within your server/network that resorts in you getting blacklist by Microsoft due to undesirable email habits. This could be due a number of things. Ex: Spamming Unsolicited newsletters No opt-out subscription for […]