Is SpamAssassin Working

Check the header of an email You can also add Barracuda RBL to Exim in WHM For cPanel /home/username/.spamassassin/user_prefs as described: Other Resources: http://www.toao.net/566-improving-spamassassin-accuracy-with-statistics

IMAP and POP Email Settings

For a plesk server IMAP Incomming server Server: mail.domain.com Connection security: none Authentication: Password, transmitted insecurely User Name: user@domain.com Port: 143 Outgoing Server: Server: mail.domain.com Connection security: STARTTLS Authentication: Encrypted password User Name: user@domain.com Incomming: Port 587 POP Incomming server Server: mail.domain.com Connection security: STARTTLS Authentication: Encrypted Password User Name: user@domain.com Port: 110 Outgoing Server: … Read more

Setting up mail on iPhone/iPad/iOS

Source: http://www.one.com/en/support/guide/mail/setting-up-mail-on-iphone-ipad-ios http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4810 If you use a common email provider, your device will load your email settings automatically. If your device doesn’t load these settings and you don’t know them, contact your email provider and ask for this information: My Email settings My email address: My email provider: Incoming Mail Server Settings Account type (POP … Read more

Spam Check list

Check the mail queue in a plesk server: mail queue is full of spam type messages like this: Subject: Mr.: 14623c9d 65% off for you! Sale Sale Sale!! Vigara – 0.54$, Cilias – 1.09$, Levtira – 1.15$.. and more more more… ” Steps to take: 1. Check the mail queue for suspicious emails that are … Read more

Email Tips

Not receiving emails from a site form: This issue was caused by the hostname of the server, which was dsw33.managed.domain.com, Update this to a vaild hostname like mail.thedomain.com and add the matching PTR (reverse DNS) record to match. You will need to add an A record at your DNS provider that points mail.thedomain.com to the … Read more

SPF Records

Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a method of fighting spam. As more time passes, this protocol will be used as one of the standard methods of fighting spam on the Internet. An SPF record is a TXT record that is part of a domain’s DNS zone file. The TXT record specifies a list of authorized … Read more

Outlook or Mail AAAA Error

Trying to send email to an outlook.com account and getting this failure. Currently Microsoft doesn’t support IPv6 for hotmail.com, live.com or outlook.com. Postfix by default if IPv6 is enabled will attempt a IPv6 DNS lookup, the AAAA record, this will fail as Microsoft doesn’t publish AAAA records for either domain. Current work around is to … Read more