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Learn how to block Spam email and how can quickly consume valuable mailbox storage, disrupt daily workflows, and significantly reduce productivity by flooding inboxes with unwanted messages. In more serious cases, spam can also pose security risks, as malicious emails may contain phishing links, harmful attachments, or deceptive content designed to compromise user accounts.
cPanel from Hosted.com® includes built-in email security tools that allow you to effectively control, filter, and reduce unwanted email at the server level.
When these tools are configured correctly, they help block common spam sources before messages reach user inboxes, minimize the risk of false positives, and maintain a cleaner, more secure email environment across your entire domain. This proactive approach improves email reliability while protecting users and sensitive information.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
How to Block Spam Email
1. Login to your Hosted.com® client area using your registered email address and password.
2. From the dashboard, locate the hosting service associated with the domain where email forwarding is configured, then click Manage.
3. Select Login to cPanel to access your hosting control panel.
4. Navigate to the Email section and choose Spam Filterswithin cPanel to open the spam protection settings associated with your domain and email accounts.
5. Enable spam filtering by switching the spam filter option on, which activates automatic scanning of incoming emails for spam-related patterns and behaviors.
6. Adjust the threshold levels carefully to control how aggressive spam filtering should be, ensuring a balance between blocking unwanted emails and allowing legitimate messages through.
Additional Information
- Spam filters reduce server load by automatically blocking or diverting large volumes of unwanted emails before they reach individual inboxes, which improves overall system performance.
- Custom rules improve accuracy by allowing you to define specific conditions, such as keywords or sender addresses, that help the system better identify spam relevant to your domain.
- Blacklists block repeat offenders by preventing emails from known spam sources or flagged IP addresses from being delivered to your mailboxes.
- Over-filtering can block valid mail when threshold levels are set aggressively; this can result in important messages being incorrectly marked as spam.
- Regular review prevents false positives by allowing you to check quarantined or filtered emails and adjust rules as necessary to maintain reliable email delivery.
- Filters work best with authentication, because SPF, DKIM, and DMARC provide verification signals that help spam filters distinguish legitimate emails from spoofed or malicious ones.
- Blocking reduces phishing risk by preventing fraudulent emails designed to steal personal information, or credentials from reaching users in the first place.
Login to Hosted.com® Account
1. Go to the Hosted.com® website Account Login page.
2. Enter your Email and Password and click the Sign In button.
3. You will see the Hosted.com® Dashboard, displaying the Manage Account menu on the left and your Account Information, Account Overview and Open Support Tickets on the right.
Login to cPanel from your Hosted.com® Dashboard
4. Click on Manage Services to view the sub-dropdown menu and select the hosting package for the domain you want to work with – in our example we are using WordPress Hosting.
5. Click the Manage button to the right of the domain name you want to access.
6. The display will now show Product Information, Quick Manage, Resource Usage and Site Statistics for that domain name.
7. Under Product Information, scroll down to Control Panel, which will display cPanel to the right, and click on the Login button.
8. The cPanel Dashboard will now be displa
