Sonnie wrote: > This is new to me. I have enabled Spamassassin in my cPanel account. I have > setup my default email to be :blackhole:. > > I am still getting spam marked mail as follows: > > ********* > Spam detection software, running on the system "host.mydomain.ws", has > > > <snip> > I also get several emails that are dated back for 1969. > > What do I need to do to keep these from coming through. It appears that are > being marked, but I thought they would get sent to :blackhole: > > > I'm probably way out of my league being here... sorry if I am, but if there > is any help understanding this, I will be greatly appreciative. > As I understand it, the cpanel/exim blackhole setting for the default will discard *ALL* mail that isn't addressed to an existing valid account.
This feature has absolutely nothing to do with what spamassassin thinks of your message. It also has absolutely no affect whatsoever on email that's sent to your real email address. It only affects email going to the "default" address.. That said, I'm not much of an expert on cpanel, nor exim.
