SpamAssassin is an email filtering tool which helps to filter or stop receiving incoming spam or unwanted emails. Whitelisting an email address means that emails from that address will bypass SpamAssassin’s filters. Please see the following steps to add a domain or email address to SpamAssassin’s whitelist: Login to your cPanel Click Spam Filters Click Show […]
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Assistance with email account setup and troubleshooting.
How to blacklist a domain or email address in Apache SpamAssassin?
SpamAssassin is an email filtering tool which helps to filter or stop receiving incoming spam or unwanted emails. Blacklisting an email address means that emails from that address will be blocked by SpamAssassin from reaching your inbox. Please see the following steps on how to add a domain or email address to SpamAssassin’s blacklist: First login […]
How do I access the Inbound Spam Filter?
A spam filter is a service which can detect unsolicited and unwanted email. It can then act to prevent those messages from getting to an email user’s inbox. Built in to our shared hosting accounts, there is a free spam filter which will help reduce the amount of spam emails you receive. However, if you […]
Moving emails from one provider to another
When you’re moving hosting to a new provider, your old emails will generally not be available (on the new hosting account) unless you migrate them manually. To do this you will need the following. Both servers must support the IMAP email protocol. All hosting accounts with LetsHost support IMAP connections The username, password and incoming […]
How to I set up an email forwarder?
If you wish to forward a copy of all emails sent to one address on to another address, you will need to set up an email address forwarder via your cPanel. For the steps required, please see the following: You can access your cPanel control panel by logging in to your client area Once logged […]
Setting up your domain with Google Workspace (Gsuite)
If you are hosting your email with Google/Google Workspace (Gsuite), you will need to manually edit the DNS of your domain to connect the two. This is done by changing your domains Mail Exchanger (MX) records to the following (priority in brackets): ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM (1) ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM (5) ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM (5) ALT3.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM (10) ALT4.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM […]
Bulk deleting emails in webmail
It is possible to bulk-delete a large number of emails from your account. This feature may be useful if you wish to delete all emails older than a certain date, from a specific sender, with a specific subject, etc. In order to bulk-delete emails from an email account, you will need to do this from […]
Updating MX records for your domain
If you have a hosting account with LetsHost, it is possible host your website on your LetsHost account and host your email with a different provider. To do this, you will need to edit your MX records to point to your email hosting provider. This provider will provide you with the MX records themselves, and […]
Adding SPF/DKIM DNS records to your domain
Adding SPF/DKIM DNS records to your domain name will help improve email delivery and reduce spam mail. To add these DNS records to your domain (if you have a hosting account with LetsHost), you will need to do this via your cPanel control panel. Please see the following steps to set these records up: Log […]
How do I set up spam filtering on my account?
Your LetsHost hosting account comes with a free spam filtering feature – Apache SpamAssassin. Please see the following steps to set up the filter: Log in to your LetsHost Client Area and click on Services > My Services You will see your products/services listed out here. Click on Active beside your hosting package On the […]