How do you use the Spam Filter tool on your cPanel plan?

Procédure

What is Spam Filter? 

This interface allows you to configure the Anti-spam filter settings (powered by Apache SpamAssassin) for your account. Anti-spam filters help identify and sort or delete unsolicited emails. This interface also allows you to configure your whitelist and blacklist settings.

How do I configure Spam Filter on cPanel? 

You can access "Spam Filter" by going to your cPanel interface, then clicking "Spam Filter" in the "Email" section.

Process new emails and mark them as Spam

You can enable "Process New Emails and Mark them as Spam" to examine each new message for Spam characteristics and assign it a Spam score.

The score determines the likelihood that a message contains Spam. The "Move New Spam to a Separate Folder (Spam Box)" and "Automatically Delete New Spam (Auto-Delete)" features require "Process New Emails and Mark them as Spam" to be enabled.

How to set the Anti-spam threshold

You can set the anti-spam score by going to "Spam Threshold Score". Note that the lower the anti-spam score, the more aggressive it is. However, a higher value, such as 10, is passive and will only mark as spam messages whose calculated score is greater than 10.

You can set an anti-spam threshold by following the procedure below:

Click on "Spam Threshold Score". You will be redirected to the interface allowing you to modify the score.

Select the desired value from the menu and click "Update Scoring options" to update the threshold.

How do I move emails considered as Spam to a separate folder?

To do this, enable "Automatically Delete New Spam (Auto-Delete)". This will send all emails considered as Spam to a specific folder. This feature preserves emails that SpamAssassin may incorrectly classify as Spam.

How to empty the Spam Box folder?

You can empty the Spam Box folder (junk mail) or delete selected messages. To do this, click "Spam Box" to be redirected to the relevant interface.

On this interface, you will be able to configure the following settings:

• Enable (1) : Enable Spam Box. 
• Empty the Spam Box Folder for user(2) : Allows you to empty the Spam Box folder for a specific user
• Empty All Spam Box Folder (3) : Allows you to empty all junk mail for all email addresses associated with this account. 
• Manage Email Disk Usage (4) : Allows disk usage management and deletion of the oldest junk emails. 

How to configure automatic deletion settings?

You can request automatic deletion of emails considered as Spam. To do this, click "Configure autodelete setting".

Enable automatic deletion of junk emails and specify the threshold value for automatic deletion.

Conclusion

You are now able to manage and use the Spam Filter tool available in your cPanel interface. You can change this configuration at any time according to your needs.