I send out an email a couple a days ago and i noticed the email bounced back. The error reported also a spam point count. I never experienced this before and when searching what this means i noticed Spamassasin evaluates the content of an email and determines if it's spam or not by certain criteria. My question is if i adjust the content of my email and subject line and send it from the same ip address again wil it again be flagged as spam? Because i use the same ip? Has my ip automaticly been placed on their blacklist by their software? Just wondering. Don't have any experience with this. P.S. : And i am not doing massive mailings! I am merely trying to contact a single company via email.
Spam Assassin uses a load of rules based on various criteria, IP wont matter unless it is known to be a major spamming server. It's actually very difficult to trigger Spam Assassin unless you use custom email software. I guess you are more likely to trigger it if you sound like a salesman, use HTML or say, write emails about common spam subjects such as drugs.
Here is a list of test performed by Spamassassin: http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_1_x.html yes very long list. Also a webmaster can: - modify the total weight needed to trigger the kill. - modify the weight for specific test. - ... Example on our servers: the kill trigger is set at 4 the RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET (listed in Spamcop) is set at 5 If we get an email from someone listed ---> Automatic KILL in your caee if you use a CRM system that put an ID in the subject line and you send to US from Asia (different char set), your email is 100% HTML, and your subject starts by "Buy"... and I don't count the usual counts: SUBJ_HAS_UNIQ_ID costs: 1.387 CHARSET_FARAWAY costs: 3.2 HTML_90_100 costs: 0.584 SUBJ_BUY costs: 1.311 Total: 6.482 it's an automatic kill for a trigger set a 4, 5 an even 6
It depends on the configuration mine bouce with a message like: "your message has been discarded by Spamassin. If you think it's an error..." But it's not often I get a call because of a unlegitimate kill note: I love the word KILL when it comes to spam