Preventing email abuse with WHM

Posted:  May 14th, 2016

 

Email abuse is easily mitigated with cPanel's WHM interface. Here are five steps to take appropriate preventative measures to prevent abuse:

 

1) Enable WHM's SMTP restrictions

 

2) Preventing the 'nobody system user' from sending email

 

3) Enable suPHP and suExec or mod_ruid2

 

4) Configure the max hourly email setting

 

5) Configure high failure rate protection

 

Implementing all five of these strategies will provide the most optimal outcome