What is SpamAssassin score?

What is SpamAssassin score?

The SpamAssassin score explained A SpamAssassin score ranks the likelihood of an email being spam. The higher the score, the higher the likelihood an email is junk. The process is pretty simple. For each email attribute SpamAssassin checks, there is a numerical score. Positive numbers indicate possible spam.

How do I change my SpamAssassin score?

How To: Change your SpamAssassin filter score.

1. Log into cPanel of the account.
2. Go to the Apache SpamAssassin section, under the email heading.
3. At the bottom of the page, click Configure Apache SpamAssassin.
4. Set the required score.
5. Scroll down to the bottom, click Save.

How do I whitelist in SpamAssassin?

To safelist individual addresses or domains in SpamAssassin:

1. Open /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf in your favorite editor for system-wide safelisting.
2. Append whitelist_from_rcvd {address or domain you want to safelist preceded by “*@”} {domain name which must be present in the Received headers}

Is SpamAssassin any good?

Although SpamAssassin isn’t a perfect tool and won’t eliminate all spam, it does do a decent job when configured to your specifications. If you have cPanel hosting, I would certainly recommend you give it a try since it doesn’t cost you any extra money.

What’s a good SpamAssassin score?

5.0
Any score below 5.0 means that an email is good enough to avoid spam filters. Scores above 5.0, though, suggest that an email is likely to get stuck somewhere on the way to an inbox and, as a result, never arrive.

How do I configure SpamAssassin?

How to Configure the SpamAssassin Score Setting

1. Click the ‘Spam Filters’ link on the main cPanel dashboard. Click on “Spam Filters”
2. Click on the ‘Spam Threshold Score’ link.
3. Adjust the Spam Threshold Score to your desired level.

How good is SpamAssassin?

How do you use SpamAssassin?

How to use SpamAssassin

1. Log in to cPanel through your dashboard.
2. Click on My cPanel.
3. Go to the Mail section.
4. Click on the Spam Filters icon.
5. Click Process New Emails and Mark them as Spam button to enable it.
6. Click Process New Emails and Mark them as Spam button to disable it.

How do I report spam to SpamAssassin?

Other SpamAssassin users may benefit from your efforts to report spam! If you enable the SpamCop plugin, just run spamassassin -r to report a spam message.

How does Apache SpamAssassin work?

A message is matched against all tests and Apache SpamAssassin combines the results into a global score which is assigned to the message. The higher the score, the higher the probability that the message is spam. Apache SpamAssassin has an internal (configurable) score threshold to classify a message as spam.

How do I use SpamAssassin to blacklist email addresses?

If SpamAssassin is not currently enabled just select the Enable SpamAssassin button and the SpamAssassin panel will load. The area we will be focusing on for this guide is the E-mail Blacklist section. Here you can use the wildcard TLD, wildcard domain or specific email address you wish to blacklist.

What is SpamAssassin sa-learn?

Sa-learn: The sa-learn tool is used to teach SpamAssassin about emails that we considered should be marked as spam, but SpamAssassin is allowing them to come through as not spam. It works by using a Bayesian filter to learn more ‘signs’ within emails that should be marked spam.

Why does SpamAssassin ignore messages I have already learnt?

If you have previously learnt any of the messages as ham, SpamAssassin will forget them first, then re-learn them as spam. Alternatively, if you have previously learnt them as spam, it’ll skip them this time around. If the messages have already been filtered through SpamAssassin, the learner will ignore any modifications SpamAssassin may have made.

How to block TLDs/domains in SpamAssassin?

When you paste the TLDs, domains or email address in the user preferences file you need to ensure that they are prefixed with blacklist_from, for example blacklist_from *@*.live, otherwise SpamAssassin won’t be able to block the list. Once completed just click the Save button and then press the Back to return to the SpamAssassin panel.