Guidelines

How do you pass SpamAssassin?

How do you pass SpamAssassin?

“Don’t worry too much about specific rules within SpamAssassin….10 Tips for Avoiding the SpamAssassin

  1. Be honest.
  2. Avoid all caps.
  3. Use conversational language.
  4. Don’t use sketchy phrases.
  5. Use a verifiable domain.
  6. Don’t include disclaimers about spam.
  7. Include text.
  8. Avoid over-using the word “free”.

What is Uribl Greylist?

According to URIBL’s website, a greylist is defined as: “This lists contains domains found in UBE/UCE, and possibly honour opt-out requests. To simplify, this means that a domain is currently being watched for potential deliverability issues.

Who uses SpamAssassin?

Companies Currently Using SpamAssassin

Company Name Website Country
cPanel cpanel.net US
Modern Technology Solutions Inc. mtsi-va.com US
Mercateo mercateo.com DE
Conseil régional du Centre-Val de Loire centre-valdeloire.fr FR

What is Bayes spam probability?

Bayesian spam filtering is based on Bayes rule, a statistical theorem that gives you the probability of an event. In Bayesian filtering it is used to give you the probability that a certain email is spam. Bayesian spam filtering is based on Bayes rule, a statistical theorem that gives you the probability of an event.

What is Urlbi?

URIBL.COM is a service that distributes information about domain names as they are related to email, primarily Unsolicited Bulk/Commercial Email (UBE/UCE). URIBL.COM serves this information via Public DNS, RSS Feeds, as well as local Data Feeds via rsync.

What is multi Surbl org?

Sender lists like zen.spamhaus.org can be used in a first stage filter to help identify 80% to 90% of unsolicited messages. Used together with sender lists, SURBLs have proven to be a highly-effective way to detect 95% of unsolicited messages.

What is spam score in cPanel?

Apache SpamAssassin is a tool which filters spam messages that go in your mailbox, based on spam characteristics. If the score of the incoming message is higher than the value you have determined (by default, the score set in SpamAssassin is 5), the tool will “tell” the mail server to delete the message.

What is SpamAssassin in cPanel?

Apache SpamAssassin is a user-friendly email utility which examines incoming mail for different spam characteristics. It uses various network tests and spam filtering to get an overall score in order to decide whether the mail should be considered as spam or not.

Why is spam detected?

This is called Spam Detection, and it is a binary classification problem. The reason to do this is simple: by detecting unsolicited and unwanted emails, we can prevent spam messages from creeping into the user’s inbox, thereby improving user experience.

Is there a support for URIBL in SpamAssassin?

SpamAssassin includes support for URIBL by default. Please make sure you are on a recent version of SpamAssassin. You will find the following rules in the default SpamAssassin configuration (/var/lib/spamassassin/3.00X000/updates_spamassassin_org/25_uribl.cf) on redhat/centos.

What should I Set my SpamAssassin score to?

The default SpamAssassin setting for the threshold is 5.0, but some SpamAssassin installations can use a more or less aggressive threshold. We use a threshold of 5.0 in our Spam Testing service.

Is there a DNS blocklist for uribl.com?

A 1 body URIBL_BLOCKED eval:check_uridnsbl (‘URIBL_BLOCKED’) describe URIBL_BLOCKED ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to URIBL was blocked. See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DnsBlocklists\\#dnsbl-block for more information. tflags URIBL_BLOCKED net noautolearn

Is there a real time blacklist for URIBLs?

As discussed below, the short lived, high-volume campaigns are becoming a new norm to try to avoid RBLs and URIBLs alike. Because real-time blacklist services are mostly reactive in nature, these short high volume campaigns can sneak by 10-30% of the spam run before blacklistings kick in.