SmarterMail 5 Anti-Spam Administration 


SmarterMail 5 Anti-Spam Administration Recommended Setup.

Your dedicated/VPS server is equipped with the SmarterMail mail server. This mail server has full support for spam filtering and it is enabled by default.

However, there are specific steps we can take to optimize the Anti-Spam configuration in SmarterMail mail server which will be explained in detail below.

First, you will have to log into SmarterMail as administrator:

Click Security, then Antispam Administration

Click Add RBL, and input the following:

Name: SpamHAUS

Weight: 10

IP Address: sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org

Click Save

Under the column Enable for Filtering, place a check mark by the following Spam Check categories:

SpamAssassin

Bayesian Filtering

DomainKeys

SPF

Reverse DNS

RBL: SpamCop

RBL: SpamHAUS

Under the column Enable for Incoming SMTP Blocking, place a check mark by the following Spam Check categories:

RBL: SpamCop

RBL: SpamHAUS

Now click Save

Now, we are going to properly configure Greylisting in SmarterMail. Click on Security, then Greylisting

Place a check mark by the following fields:

Enable Greylisting

Enable Users to override Greylisting

Enable Greylisting for SmartHosts

By following the steps above, SmarterMail will now efficiently reduce Spam on your mail server.

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