Constant Spam mail

[lunders]

Heya guys, After updating directadmin about a month ago. I now seem to be getting constant spam mail. I am not a company or anything, its just my own personal website on the dedi box.

So im not sure why I am getting all this junk. Could anyone tell me how to check and see if my box is setup to fight spam?

 

[OliverScott]

1) Make sure your email address does not apppear (in plain text) on your website.

2) Make sure that there is no catchall account set up on the server.

3) Make sure spamassassin is enabled for the domain in question (through the DA control panel) and set it to 5 for tagging, and 10 for deleting (a reasonably tough setting which should catch a lot of spam).

If you feel up to it you can also modify your exim.conf file (using somthing like putty) to enable a set of realtime block lists (RBLs or DNSBLs) called SpamBlocker.

You could also look at other command line tweaks such as additional spamassassin rules and plugins etc.