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Spam protection using cPanel. Forget about Captcha!
After I’ve tried, with no success unfortunately, to use Captcha plugins to protect against spam on my Wordpress blogs, I’ve decided finally to take a look into the cPanel features for spam protection. And indeed there are some nice solutions.
I’ve choose BoxTrapper, a cPanel AddOn which protects your inbox from spam by forcing all people to reply to a verification email before their email will get into your inbox.
Setup:
1. open your Wordpress blog and go to the General Settings page.
2. write into the E-mail address field an address in this format: whereveryouwant@yourdomainname.xxx (mine: ken@kensfi.com)
3. open cPanel pointing your web browser to www.yourdomainname.xxx/cpanel
4. fill in the username and password (the same you’re using for FTP)
5. click on Mail and then Add/Remove/Manage Accounts and click on Add Account (bottom of page).
6. enter the same email you entered at the 2nd step, enter a password and set up the quota (how much space of storage you assign for this email address) – try to be generous (at least a couple of hundreds of MB).
7. click on Create.
8. click on Go back (bottom of the page) twice
Now you should be back on Mail Manager Main Menu.
9. click on BoxTrapper Spam Trap; there should be listed your new email created. Click on Manage.
10. click on ENABLE button; you should receive a new message “BoxTrapper has been enabled on the account whereveryouwant@yourdomainname.xxx”.
11. press Go back; click on configure settings and here modify only the numbers of days you want an unverified message to be kept on the server. I’ve let it default – 15 days. Click on Save if you have been modified something and again push Go back.
12. now you’re back in BoxTrapper Configuration page. Fill free to modify whatever you want but don’t forget to click on Edit Forward/White/Black/Ignore Lists then Edit Forward list and write down the email address you want the verified messages to arrive – is better to use a regular email provider address like gmail or yahoo instead of using the server email, in this case, whereveryouwant@yourdomainname.xxx.
Now everything should be up and running. Just to make sure that everything is OK, make a few tests sending emails to whereveryouwant@yourdomainname.xxx and see what’s going on. You should receive back a verification email which you should replay unchanged. And Bang! The test message will get through to the email address you setup on the 12nd step. On this email address you’ll receive all the comments from your blog.
To review in a few words, BoxTrapper is forcing every comment we receive (not only on blogs, but regular websites too!) to be verified by the people who’s sending it by replaying it, a simple condition to verify if a comment is coming from a bot or from a person. Smart eh? :)
What I think about BoxTrapper? FORGET ABOUT WORDPRESS CAPTCHA! :)
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