Getting rid of unwanted emails with 'Box Trapper'

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Overview

The cPanel BoxTrapper allows you to activate email verification for those not on your white list. This means that any mail address that is not placed on your white list will be required to send back a verification email to ensure that they are not a spammer. This function can be quite useful in preventing automatic mailings that you do not wish to receive from reaching your inbox.

Steps

1. To access the Mail Menu, click on the icon above the word Mail on the main screen of your cPanel interface.
2. Click on BoxTrapper Spam Trap.
3. To enter the BoxTrapper menu, click on the word Manage.
4. Click on the words Configure Settings.
5. Change the settings to what you need:

Email addresses going to this account:

Place all of the email addresses that you wish to have the BoxTrapper enabled on in the field next to this option. These addresses should be separated by commas.

How many days logs and messages in the queue should be kept:

Place a number in the field next to this option that corresponds with the number of days you wish to keep mail logs and mail messages in the queue. (Setting this higher will use up more disk space)

Click on Save to save your changes.

Troubleshooting

The BoxTrapper will prevent all mail from entering your inbox except from addresses on your white list, or addresses that have responded to your verification message. Make sure that any automatic mailing you wish to receive have their from address on your white list as they will not be able to respond to your verification mail.