Improving spam filtering for email accounts on a personal domain?

[Dubb]

I have a personal web site and email account that is controlled through cpanel.
I have spam assassin set to auto-delete anything with a score of 7 or higher.

This, for most of the last 5-6 years, has kept spam to a minimum, maybe 4 or 5 made it though a month. That all changed with the adobe data breech - within a week, I was getting 4-5 a day (usually with malware attachments) and now it's up to 15-20 / day.

What can I do on a domain I control to beat this back? Higher spam assassin score or something else? Access through gmail instead of outlook?

Much thanks.

 

[code65536]

Spam filtering is hard. SpamAssassin was great about a decade ago, but it can't keep up. I gave up on it years ago and now use Gmail for its spam filtering.

Something else to consider, since you're using your own domain, is using a catchall.

For example, instead of all mails going to me@example.com, I prefer to do something like adobe@example.com or amazon@example.com: each place that I provide an e-mail to gets a unique address. This won't help you with your current problem, but it could help mitigate future problems. This lets me disable addresses that become too badly inundated, and as a bonus, I often find out about breaches at websites before they're announced (if they announce it at all; there was even one time when I was the one to inform a site that they had been breached, because of the sudden influx of spam that I was getting at an address that I was using with them).

 

[FiLeZz]

Go exchange 365 with app river spam filtering cost is about 8 bux a month