Using the Sendmail Reject List to Manage Spam

The Sendmail Reject List is a list of email sources that you identify as sources of unsolicited email. The mail server rejects email messages from these sources thus prohibiting further relay to any site hosted on the server. For example, if you include the IP address 1.2.3.4 in the Reject List, all email messages that originate from this address will be blocked from being relayed to any site hosted on the server.

The email source can be:

You can also use the Spam Filter service to enable user-level control and management of spam. The Sendmail Reject List and spam filter service vary in their approach and flexibility in managing spam.

Note: The Spam Filter service offered in the earlier versions of Ensim Pro/Basic is renamed to Sendmail Reject List. Parallels Pro Control Panel introduces a new Spam Filter service that uses the SpamAssassin™ tool to enable spam scanning.