How to install Easy Spam Fighter on DirectAdmin

In today’s article, AZDIGI will show you how to install Easy Spam Fighter on DirectAdmin to restrict the problem of Spam Email going in and out of your server.

I. What is Easy Spam Fighter?

Easy Spam Fighter is a spam scoring software for incoming and outgoing mail. If the spam score exceeds the allowable limit, the message is considered spam.

With more and more people using email services and control panels like cPanel and DirectAdmin becoming increasingly popular, providing professional email services on these platforms is not lacking. And with that, we will need a spam filter to avoid turning our server IP into an untrusted IP address.

Let’s continue to follow the article to know how to install Easy Spam Fighter on DirectAdmin.

II. Install Easy Spam Fighter on DirectAdmin

To install Easy Spam Fighter on DirectAdmin, we follow these 2 steps.

Step 1: SSH into your DirectAdmin system

To install Easy Spam Fighter on DirectAdmin, we first need to SSH or access your VPS/server with root privileges. If you don’t know how to SSH into your VPS/Server, you can refer to the following tutorial:

• How to log in to Linux VPS via SSH protocol

After successfully SSH, we continue with step 2 to perform the Easy Spam Fighter installation commands on DirectAdmin.

Step 2: Execute the Easy Spam Fighter installation commands on DirectAdmin

First, check if your VPS/Server is running CustomBuild 2.0 version. To check the version of CustomBuild you are using, please check out the following short tutorial:

• Check CustomBuild version in use

In case your CustomBuild version is lower than 2.0 then you need to upgrade CustomBuild 1.x to 2.0 , you can check out the following tutorial:

• Upgrade CustomBuild version from 1.x to 2.0

After having CustomBuild 2.0, we continue to perform the Easy Spam Fighter installation commands, although it is not difficult, but it is quite a lot of commands. Therefore, I will explain in detail each command for you to understand.

Let’s execute the commands below:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build update
./build set eximconf yes
./build set eximconf_release 4.5
./build set blockcracking yes
./build set easy_spam_fighter yes
./build set spamd spamassassin
./build set exim yes
./build exim
./build set dovecot_conf yes
./build dovecot_conf
./build spamassassin
./build update
./build exim_conf
    

Explanation of the above commands:

• Command 1: Move to the directadmin folder.
• Command 2: Update custombuild script.
• Command 3: Enable the eximconf option in the configuration.
• Command 4: After enabling eximconf, we need to select the version to install. The latest version will be 4.5, we can track the latest version at this link: SpamBlocker Versions.
• Command 5: Enable the blockcracking option in the configuration.
• Command 6: Enable the easy_spam_fighter option in the configuration.
• Command 7: Adjust spamassassin will be anti-spam software in the configuration.
• Command 8: Enable the exim option in config.
• Command 9: Install exim with the new configuration.
• Command 10: Enable the dovecot_conf option in the configuration.
• Command 11: Install dovecot_conf with the new configuration.
• Command 12: Install spamassassin.
• Command 13: Update the custombuild script script again.
• Command 14: Install exim_conf with the new configuration.

Here is my installation process:

So we have successfully installed Easy Spam Fighter on DirectAdmin. However, how to know if Easy Spam Fighter is working? You run the following command:

ps ax |grep spamd
    

If the screen shows something similar to below, which means Easy Spam Fighter is active.

To use it, we select the user to configure and access the Spamassassin Setup feature as shown below:

and click Enable Spamassassin.

Below is the interface of this feature. Depending on your needs, you can configure it accordingly.

III. Summary

Hopefully, through this article, you know how to install Easy Spam Fighter on DirectAdmin and how to activate it for users who need it.

Hope this article will be of help to you.