SpamAssassin uses a wide range of advanced statistical analysis tests on main headers and body text to identify “spam” – unsolicited bulk e-mail. SpamAssassin requires very little configuration; you do not need to continually update it with details of your mail accounts, mailing list memberships, etc. It accomplishes filtering without this knowledge, as much as possible. Click on the button at right to access your control panel. This window will remain open in the background so you can refer back here when desired. You may see a security warning - click OK You’ll see the Plesk Login window. Enter your complete e-mail adress and password (remember, passwords are case-sensitive). Then click Login. You’ll then see the control panel for your e-mail account. Click on Spam Filter to configure your SpamAssassin account. Uncheck the server wide settings checkbox – we purposely haven’t established any settings (this is more appropriate for an in-house company e-mail server). The Hits required for spam can be set to whatever you’d like (default is 7). Based on a complex rules set, SpamAssassin assigns a score to each spam-like element of a message. When the total score exceeds the number set here, the message is reported as spam. To reduce the amount of spam that gets through, reduce the number. What to do with spam mail offers you the choice of immediately deleting it, or marking it for your disposal later. If you select Delete, you run the risk of losing a message that may look like spam but really isn't (you can help this situation – see the next section). A wise choice is to use the second option (below) for a while until you’re satisfied that no valid messages would be deleted. Mail marked as spam will go to your inbox but have special text added to the subject line. The default is *****SPAM*****, but you can change it to whatever you’d like here. Click Set when you’re satisfied with this section. This is the bottom of the control panel. The Black list is where you can add any e-mail addresses that will always be considered spam. You can enter the exact address (like viagra@spammer.com), or *@spammer.com, which will tag all mail from the domain spammer.com as spam, regardless of what the exact mail name is. Comversely, the White list should contain e-mail addresses which will be considered trustworthy, and never will be marked as spam. As in the Black list above, you can also enter addresses in the format *@goodmail.com so that all e-mail from goodmail.com will not be tagged, no matter how much like spam it looks. If you go back to the Spam Filter configuration panel and click on Training, you’ll see this panel. The headers for all mail that comes to your Inbox will be listed here. If you consider a particular message to be spam, select the spam button. SpamAssassin will begin to build a file of all the messages you select this way, and start to recognize messages similar to them and tag them as spam. Messages that you want to identify as non-spam should be selected as ham; these will never be tagged as spam. Click on forget to change the status of a previously selected message. Click on Clear to clear the entire spam filter database. Please be aware that this feature takes a while to develop clear patterns and tag spam, but it does follow fairly complex rules and will work intelligently. Click OK and you’re done!