DirectAdmin SpamAssassin Setup
Difficulty Level: Medium
In order to configure SpamAssassin, begin by logging in to your DirectAdmin control panel
Navigate to the E-Mail Manager section and click Spamassassin Setup
SearchThe DirectAdmin Search function works very well and makes it very easy to locate the SpamAssassin Setup page. Type Spam in the search bar and the link to the Spam Assassin Setup page will appear.
If SpamAssassin is not enabled you will need to enable it before seeing the screen shown below.
The screenshot below shows all available options
Blocking Strategy - Where should the spam go?
- Inbox
- Do not block spam e-mails. All incoming messages would go to inbox
- Main Spambox
- Redirect it to the catch-all spam folder in your main IMAP account
- User Spambox
- Send the spam to the user’s spam folder
- Delete
- Remove the spam from the server automatically
High Score Block - Would you like to delete high scoring spam?
- No
- Do not block high scoring spam. Use only global threshold
- Yes
- Block all spam scoring higher than custom high-score threshold
All emails scored higher than high-score threshold would be deleted automatically. Enter a number between 1 and 50 (no decimals). 15 is the default value.
Remember to save your changes
Global threshold - What score threshold do you wish to use?
- Low (5.0)
- A lower threshold will block more spam, but can potentially tag legitimate mail.
- Medium (10.0)
- Increased probability to pass spam.
- High (15.0)
- A higher threshold will let more spam through, but is less likely to tag legitimate mail.
- Custom
- A custom threshold will let you set finer control over what is considered spam.
Rewrite subject - Do you wish to rewrite the subject of a spam e-mail?
- No
- Leave the subject unchanged
- Yes
- Set the subject to the following (Custom subject would be prepended to the original)
Default value is *****SPAM*****
Spam delivery - How should the spam be delivered?
- Don’t use attachments
- Incoming spam is only modified by adding some X-Spam- headers and no changes will be made to the body. In addition, a header named X-Spam-Report will be added to spam
- Use attachments
- If an incoming message is tagged as spam, instead of modifying the original message, SpamAssassin will create a new report message and attach the original message as a message/rfc822 MIME part (ensuring the original message is completely preserved, not easily opened, and easier to recover).
- Use text-attachments
- Original messages will be attached with a content type of text/plain instead of message/rfc822. This setting may be required for safety reasons on certain broken mail clients that automatically load attachments without any action by the user. This setting may also make it somewhat more difficult to extract or view the original message
Remember to save your changes
This is the list of e-mail address that will be blocked. Any e-mail from these addresses will automatically be tagged as spam.
Type in an email address or block an entire domain by typing in *@the-domain.com (replace the-domain.com with the actual domain you wish to block) and press Enter
This is the list of e-mail address that will be allowed. Any e-mail from these addresses will automatically be tagged as non-spam.
Type in an email address or whitelist (allow) an entire domain by typing in *@the-domain.com (replace the-domain.com with the actual domain you wish to block) and press Enter
The Bayesian classifier in Spamassassin tries to identify spam by looking at what are called tokens; words or short character sequences that are commonly found in spam or ham. This button will remove data learned by SpamAssassin. It will free up some space, but will reset any learned progress SpamAssassin has previously made.
- Related link of interest
- Spam Filters
If you need any assistance, please submit a ticket for Technical Support