How to create spam filters in Direct Admin

How to create spam filters in Direct Admin

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Direct Admin

Now let’s learn how to create Spam Filters in Direct Admin

Scroll down…

Click the SPAM Filters link

Let’s go ahead and block email from a specific address

This is the main E-mail Filter (or spam filter) screen, where you can enter several different kinds of filters

You can block email from specific email addresses, from an entire domain, or emails containing specific words

You can also block emails that are too large, and/or enable the adult email filter which will block emails containing common adult phrases

Now let’s block email from an entire domain

The email address badguy@msn.com has been blocked

Now let’s enable the Adult Filter….. click here

The Adult Filter has been enabled

For any emails that match our filter criteria, let’s choose to send those emails to a spambox

Then click Save

Let’s remove the filters we just created…..

From this E-Mail Filters screen, we can also remove existing spam filters

Click the Home icon here

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to create email filters from Direct Admin, as well as remove them

Updated on September 7, 2018

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