Advanced Email Protection
All premium members get our advanced email protection. We use a collection of powerful utilities which do the following:
- Achieve much higher spam and virus detection rates
- Tag, delete or forward email identified as spam
- Differentiate between possible and likely spam
- Use any number of Realtime Blackhole Lists (RBL’s)
- Keep server resource usage to a minimum
The utilities are:
- MailScanner / DCC / Vipuls Razor – mail scanning tools for anti-spam and anti-virus service.
- MailScanner front-end accessible from within your cPanel. This application provides a user front-end to our MailScanner installation. The following extended options are now available from within your cPanel:
- Per domain actions for two score levels for spam scanning
- Per domain actions for virus scanning
- Per account whitelists and blacklists
- Per account low and high score settings
- Per account configurable forwarding email address for spam
- MailWatch, front-end for statistical information, SpamAssassin learning and releasing of attachments from quarantine
- ClamAV and MailScanner have been modified to use the Mail::ClamAV perl module, which reduces server load and speeds up mail scanning dramatically
- We have now configured SpamAssassin to use a server-wide bayesian filter database to increase identification of spam. instead of a spam database on a per user basis. cPanel SpamAssassin has been disabled to provide central control of mail scanning services.
- MailScanner configuration has been modified to allow us to offer a per domain email scanning service for spam and/or viruses, together with per domain actions for dealing with detected spam
- SpamAssassin Extended Rules from SARE – greatly improves identification of spam
- Exim Tweaks – better tweaking of Exim for use with MailScanner
- Prevent unnecessary queuing
- Create server-wide abuse@ and postmaster@ addresses
- Correct handling of :fail: message on RCPT failure
- Dictionary attack protection – drops spammers who repeatedly send email to non-existent email addresses and can greatly reduce server load.