Anti Spam Steps

SPAM ASSASSIN - cPanel

Within your control panel is Spam Assassin - an anti spam filter. It is set at 5 (mid level).
Make sure this facility is enabled and that the emails labeled spam are deleted.

To increase the strength of the Spam Assassin Filter go to level 4.
Be careful if increasing the filtration strength as you do not wish to bin legitimate emails

DEFAULT EMAIL ADDRESSES - cPanel

Catch All default email addresses are wonderful collectors of spam.
This is because they let any email through with the address (anything)@yourdomain.com.

An easy and effective way to cut down spam is to specify forwarders or mailboxes.
This means that an email that is correctly address, specifically for you, is either forwarded to you ISP email address or held in your Mail Box on your server space.

All other emails that are incorrectly addressed to your domain can be then discarded.

The directions below apply to those servers that operate cPanel.

www.(yourdomain).com.au/cpanel

Login :

UserName: yourusername
PassWord: youruserpassword

Click on Mail

In Mail Manager Main Menu,
Ensure that you have a mail forwarder for each of your exact email addresses.
or
set up a POP3 Mailbox for each of your exact email addresses.

Click on Set default address
Enter ':Fail: no such address here' to discard all mail that is not correctly addressed

This means that all incorrectly addresses emails (they constitute the bulk of spam) will be deleted whilst the correctly addressed emails will get through to you.

ON YOUR COMPUTER

Email Programs
Most Current Email programs such as Outlook 7 have the capacity to recognise spam.
There are options to adjust the Filtration levels.

Message Rules
Creating an incoming Message targets specific senders

Anti Virus Programs
Have an up to date Anti Virus program running to filter embedded nasties in unsolicited email.

PREVENTATIVE

Another way is to change email addresses that are not on the internet.
Obviously, changing an email address will stop spam  - especially if you do not use a common prefix like admin, support, info etc.

New websites should not have plain text email addresses displayed either on the page or in the coding of the page.  There are various java scripts and php scripts available to encode your email address.

If you have a spambot filling in your forms, you may need an image verification to prove that a human is trying to send information to you.

More Information here

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