by dabempire | Feb 26, 2011 | E-Mail, Knowledgebase
Here are the steps you can take to configure your email account hosted on a cPanel server: Note: replace example.org with your domain name. 1. From Tools menu select Accounts 2. Click Add 3. Select Email Account type and press next 4. Display name is your name, press next 5. Email address is your complete email address: e.g. someone@example.org 6. (a) Incoming mail server type: POP3 if you want to download emails to your computer. or IMAP if you want to keep your emails on the server and be able to access them from webmail (b) Incoming mail server: mail.example.org (c) Outgoing mail server: mail.example.org (d) select [v] Outgoing server requires authentication Press next 7. Email username is complete email address, e.g. someone@example.org 8. Password is your email password, press next 9. click Finish to complete the setup. The above will work fine if your ISP does not block outgoing port (25). Some major ISPs do block it. In that case you will not be able to send email. If this happens, we can by pass the block. Let us proceed to edit the account settings. 10. From Tools menu select Accounts, highlight your Mail account and click Properties 11. select Advanced tab 12. Outgoing mail (SMTP) change the port from 25 to 465 and select [v] This server requires a secure connection (SSL), click OK and close the account. If you get security certificate warning being not verified when the mail is sent you can either ignore it and continue or in step 6(c) change the outgoing server to your JaguarPC hosting server name which is usually something.nocdirect.com...
by dabempire | Feb 26, 2011 | E-Mail, Knowledgebase
If you want your emails to only get forwarded to your forwarder email address and do not want to have a copy of the email here on your account on the server, then do not setup any pop account for that email account and only setup a forwarder from the forwarder section. This way the email will still be forwarded to your destination address but there will be no local copy of the email...
by dabempire | Feb 26, 2011 | E-Mail, Knowledgebase
Spam Box You can enable spam box from the SpamAssassin configuration screen in cpanel, and regularly check the spam box for any false positives. You can clear (empty) that spambox from the cpanel if it only gets spam. You will need to regularly clear the spambox or it can fill up your hosting space. Or Filter Spam Marked Emails Login to your cpanel, go to Mail and then Email Filter screen. Create a filter rule like this: Select “Any header” that “contains” the string “X-Spam-Level: *****” (without quotes) The result is this: $message_headers contains “X-Spam-Level: *****” Each * represents spam assassin score. 5 is a default value for spam assassin to consider that email a spam. Note: In the new cpanel release coming up soon, the headers may change. So please check the headers of a spam marked message and create the filter from your control panel...
by dabempire | Feb 26, 2011 | E-Mail, Knowledgebase
Some users think that by setting up aliases like companyA@yourdomain.com and companyB@yourdomain.com they will be able to catch the spammers if that email address starts to receive spam. This is a myth that by setting up aliases you can catch them. You can not because even if they do not sell your email address to spammers, your email address can go into the hands of spammers. This is what many of the trojans/worms do. They collect email addresses right off your hard drive / addressbook / email software. If not yours, someone you emailed from that email address, their computer may be infected with such worm, and you have no control over that. So it is just a waste of time to set up such aliases. If you ever use an email address, chances are that email address will go into spammers database. You need to use anti-spam techniques like SpamAssassin to filter spam. By increasing email aliases, you are just increasing email traffic (i.e. spam) to your...
by dabempire | Feb 26, 2011 | E-Mail, Knowledgebase
The default email address will “catch” any mail that is sent to an invalid email address for your domain. All mail that is sent to an address that does not exist as pop3 or forwarder will go to the default email address. We strongly recommend that you setup Default Address to :fail: (including colons on both sides of fail) This will make your domain safe from dictionary attacks where spammers send millions of emails addressed to random addresses on your domain. NOTE: This :fail: does not bounce emails. It rejects the email at smtp even before receiving emails i.e. when the sending server starts communicating with the mail server on your account, it asks to deliver email to a certain address. If that address does not exist, it will not accept the email. This way the email will stay in sender’s (or spammer’s) mail queue and will not leave it. So this is not a bounce and the server has not much work to do in this case. On a related note, if it was a bounce, it would bounce to spoofed address and cause more trouble, hence the challenge-response type of anti-spam feature is fundamentally...
by dabempire | Feb 26, 2011 | E-Mail, Knowledgebase
For our shared/sdx/reseller hosting, and users with cpanel on their vps/dedicated, the maximum email size is 50MB. This is the default set by the developers of mail server and they say it is safe value. Anything higher than that can be abused for denial of service. Note: 50MB does not mean you can attach exactly 50MB file. The file attachment is encoded for email transmission and can take more space. For example, a 10MB file may take 12MB in email after encoded data. If you need to send/receive large files, please use...
