Hundreds of Megs of Spam
If you register domains and slap up websites with a quick sales letter, freebie giveaway or a bunch of articles for adsense… you’ll want to keep reading…
Go to your server admin area (usually Cpanel) and click on “List Accounts“, then look at the table containing all your domain names and find the column “Disk Used“.
If you’re like me, you’ll be in for a nasty surprise. Some of my websites which just had a few webpages were using up hundreds of megabytes of disk space.
How can that be?
It’s simple. All the pesky spam arriving at the email box was just sitting on the server, using up disk space.
Right now I’m deleting almost 60,000 spams… from just one account. They’re taking up almost 200Mb of space!
I cleaned two accounts yesterday, and have more to do. I guess I’ll free up over a gigabyte of space by doing this spring clean.
The next step is to enable SpamAssassin for each account (it’s under Mail Manager), set the score to a nice low number (I’m using 2 instead of the default 5) and click the link that says “To simply have the server DELETE and NOT deliver emails that are tagged as spam by SpamAssassin, click here now.”
Boom. Bye, bye spammers. Hello tons of extra server space. 
