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Can I block Email Addresses From Sending Me Email?

Yes you can. However filtering via cpanel is not only time consuming it is also not very effective. The reason being spammers generally send a few thousand messages then close that email account and open a new one.

We recommend reading our "Beating Spam" article first you can see that by Clicking Here

If you want to do things the hard way then a "How To" on filtering using cpanel is below.

Log into your cpanel at

http://www.YOURSITE.COM/cpanel

Once logged in look in the e-mail section and click "E-mail Filtering"

Now click "add filter"

We highly recoomend you block junk mail by EXACT subject rather than by e-mail address. Blocking email addresses really is a waste of time spammers never keep the same email address for long.

You will see the filter has a "subject contains" filter be careful with that because if you put small words that are part of larger words you may ban legitimate email.

We suggest you use the following method if you want to use manual blocking.

Let's say you are getting lots of spam emails with the subject

"The Ultimate Online Pharmacy"

Set the filter like this

Subject >>>>>Equals>>>>>The Ultimate Online Pharmacy

destination : disgard

This way any email matching that exact subject will be disgarded automatically if sent to your email addresses.

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