In this guide you will learn how to tweak the default postfix configuration for incoming emails. In Postfix configuration you need to add or edit following directives on /etc/postfix/main.cf configuration file. All configuration directives are explained in the postfix website. Postfix Configuration Parameters smtpd_helo_required = yes Require that a remote SMTP client introduces itself with … Read more
This tutorial we show how you can use the RBLs interface to configure your mail server to check incoming mail against the available RBLs. Your server will block the incoming messages if the IP address or hostname matches an cPanel RBL entry. RBL is short for “Real-time Blackhole List.” RBL servers keep lists of spam-heavy … Read more
Using RBL is really efficient and pretty lightweight. All it take is some DNS queries and if you were going to receive a lot of spam email from the same client, this DNS entries will be cached in your (local) DNS. To get some figures on how many emails get caught through, on a server … Read more
IPs or domains that cause threat to your inboxes will be listed by the blacklists. If you are on a blacklist you should not keep quite you must act quickly. There are several email blacklists which tries to impress you with a long list, which might not be good tool. So, here is a list … Read more