SpamAssassin

SpamAssassin is a program installed on our virtual web servers that filters your email for spam based on a pre-defined scoring system. We provide this service free of charge to our customers. It requires a small procmail configuration inside your account space.

Instructions

What you'll need:

• a text editor, such as Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac). Important: make sure the editor is set to Plain Text mode and not Rich Text mode.
• an FTP or SFTP client, such as WinSCP (Windows) or Cyberduck (Mac), the same one you used when uploading your website. Note: if you had a third party upload your website, ask them to perform this entire task for you instead.

Here are instructions for getting it activated in your account:

• Open your text editor.
• Apply the right ruleset:

If you're on one of our newer servers, copy the following and paste it into your editor window:

:0fw
* < 60000
| /usr/bin/spamc

:0e
{
    EXITCODE=77
}

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
$DEFAULT/.Spam/

If you're on one of our older servers, copy the following and paste it into your editor window:

:0fw
* < 60000
| /usr/bin/spamassassin

:0e
{
    EXITCODE=77
}

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
/dev/null

Note: if you're unsure whether or not you're on an older or newer server, please contact support.

• Save the file as: procmail.txt
• Connect to your webhosting server via SFTP.
• Upload the procmail.txt file, and make sure that you use ASCII format when you do so.
• Once the file is uploaded, rename the file: .procmailrc (note the preceding period; this is very important)
• You're done! Spamassassin is now installed and will work instantly and automatically for all email accounts.

Troubleshooting

If you've set a procmail.log file within your .procmailrc, you can examine that file for originating email addresses, subjects, file size, and times of the spam receipt:

-----
From terry7567793414v13@spamhub.com.au  Thu Jul 11 00:13:15 2002
 Subject: *****SPAM***** Here is that link 1594HNsC1--9
  Folder: /dev/null                                                        4748
-----

For detailed information about SpamAssassin, please visit spamassassin.org.