Hello George, Wednesday, January 21, 2004, 7:58:31 PM, you wrote:
GM> I believe I am limited to what my host has in the cpanel already. GM> Yes I am on shared server sorry. GM> I do have fantastico which will let me install some things but GM> doesn't look related to anything like SA. On your cPanel, check the Mail control panel. Mine reads: > Web Mail > Add/Remove Accounts > Default Address > Autoresponders > E-mail Filtering > Forwarders > Mailing Lists > Spam Assassin <============== > Trace an E-mail Address > Modify Mail Exchanger (MX Entry) Yours may differ, accoridng to which version of cPanel your host has installed. (Mine keeps both cPanel and SA pretty much up to date.) Within that Spam Assassin control panel, I have buttons that will a) enable SA, b) disable SA, c) enable a spam box, d) disable a spam box, and e) configure SA. First step, if you haven't done so, is to punch (ok, click) that first button, to turn on SA's capabilities. That will activate SA's default ruleset, network checks if your host has them enabled, and Bayes auto-learn if your host has Bayes enabled. I've never tried using the Spam Box, so I don't know how it works. You can play with it if you want. The Configure Spam Assassin button will bring you to an online interface that allows you to specify at least some SA parameters. Unless you're familiar with setup parameter files and maintaining them using an editor and FTP (well, the cPanel File Manager might be useful here -- I haven't tried that one), this online interface is probably a good place to start. It allows you to modify the contents of your user_prefs file. (The user_prefs file is the only real control you have over SA.) Eventually you'll want to maintain user_prefs yourself (the cPanel interface isn't powerful enough to do everything you'll want to do). You can use FTP to download a copy to look at. You'll find that in a .spamassassin directory (you'll need to have FTP display "hidden" files and directories to find it) off your top-level access directory. When you've gotten that far, and you feel ready, I can help you get further. Bob Menschel ps to SA-Talk -- it's probably good to get this introductory cPanel information into the list archives. I may also post it to one of the Wikis when I have time. When we start getting into advanced topics I may take this correspondence private, if it looks like it's becoming too "shared hosting" specific. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
