If you've used email for more than a few months, you know how much a pain in the butt spam can be.
Here is a tip for those of you who use cPanel for your email (eCare clients, that's you!), which will reduce the ammount of spam you get by at LEAST 90%.
This will require a Gmail account, so if you do not have one already, sign up here.
The basic principal is this: Email comes to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and then gets forwarded to Gmail. Gmail will then detect if the message is spam or not, throw it in the Inbox or Spam folder, and finally, Gmail will forward the legitimate messages back to your cPanel account.
Once you have your Gmail account, you will want to forward mail from your Gmail Inbox (that is, legitimate messages that passed Googles spam tests) to your cPanel account. Do this by going to Settings and then the Filters tab. You want to create a filter that will make Gmail forward all email addressed to the domain "yourdomain.com" and keep a copy in the Gmail inbox. To do this, go to the Advanced filters and enter your domain name, finally selecting Forward for the action, and fill in your cPanel email address ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
You may be thinking "but if mail that goes to my domain goes to gmail, and gmail goes to my domain, won't that be a never ending loop of email?"
That would be the case without the next script, courtesey of web-professor.net.
# Exim filter
if not first_delivery and error_message then finish endif
if $message_headers: does not contain "X-Forwarded-For:
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
" then
deliver "
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
"
else
deliver "
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
"
endif
endif
Open notepad and paste in the above script, choose to save as "All types" instead of .txt and save it as yourdomain.tld
(I.E. I would name it ecarewebsolutions.com)
Now, upload this file via FTP to the /etc/vfilters/ directory.
The last step is to start the whole process by Forwarding your cPanel email address to your Gmail address.
It should take an hour or two to start seeing results, but I think you'll be much happier looking at your Inbox every morning with this fix!
