{"id":3492,"date":"2015-01-13T19:42:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T19:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2015\/01\/13\/disable-spamcop-in-whm\/"},"modified":"2020-10-13T13:41:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:41:57","slug":"disable-spamcop-in-whm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/email\/disable-spamcop-in-whm\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabling SpamCop RBL in WHM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of our servers check incoming email against the SpamCop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/cpanel\/the-rbl-checker-for-dns-blacklisting\/\">RBL<\/a> (Realtime BlackList.) If an IP address is listed in the RBL it is not allowed to send email to our servers. These emails are rejected and sent back to the sender telling them they are blocked. This is mandatory for all shared servers, but VPS and Dedicated servers have the option to disable the SpamCop check if they wish. Below we show you how to do that within the WHM.<\/p>\n<div class=\"alert\"><strong style=\"color: red;\">Note:<\/strong> This ability requires <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/amp\/obtain-root-access\/\">root access<\/a> for your account.<\/div>\n<h2>How to disable the SpamCop RBL in WHM<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/whm\/log-into-whm\/\">Log into your WHM<\/a>.\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/edu\/whm\/disable-spamcop\/1-select-exim-config-mgr.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 15px 15px 15px;\" title=\"Click here to view the larger image\" src=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/edu\/whm\/disable-spamcop\/1-select-exim-config-mgr.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Check under the <em>Service Configuration<\/em> section and click on the <strong>Exim Configuration Manager<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/edu\/whm\/disable-spamcop\/2-select-rbl-tab.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 15px 15px 15px;\" title=\"Click here to view the larger image\" src=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/edu\/whm\/disable-spamcop\/2-select-rbl-tab.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>From the <em>Exim Configuration Manager<\/em> page, select the <strong>RBLs<\/strong> tab.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/edu\/whm\/disable-spamcop\/3-toggle-spamcop-off.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"std_ss\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 15px 15px 15px;\" title=\"Click here to view the larger image\" src=\"\/support\/images\/stories\/edu\/whm\/disable-spamcop\/3-toggle-spamcop-off.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Here you will see the different RBL options. Locate the <em>RBL: bl.spamcop.net<\/em> option and set it to <strong>OFF<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click on the <strong>Save<\/strong> button.\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now that you have disabled the SpamCop RBL all emails sent to your server will be received. You can always return later to re-enable this feature if you wish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of our servers check incoming email against the SpamCop RBL (Realtime BlackList.) If an IP address is listed in the RBL it is not allowed to send email to our servers. These emails are rejected and sent back to the sender telling them they are blocked. This is mandatory for all shared servers, but<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/email\/disable-spamcop-in-whm\/\"> Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,4289],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-whm"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Disabling SpamCop RBL in WHM | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tired of SpamCop blocking emails to your server? 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