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What is SpamAssassin and how your Score is calculated?
What is SpamAssassin and how your Score is calculated?
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Written by Arthur
Updated over a week ago

What is SpamAssassin?

Apache SpamAssassin is a filtering program that uses a variety of spam-detection techniques and provides a spam score to every email: 5 being considered as spam.

SpamAssassin is used by most ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and individual domains as a spam-filter. Meaning that a bad grade (4 or above) will impact severely your deliverability.

How is your SpamAssassin Score calculated?

SpamAssassin developers keep the factors involved in the score calculation public.

These are some key elements checked by SpamAssassin:

  • Main Domain and IP blacklists/greylists/blocklists

  • Collaborative spam identification databases

  • SPF and DKIM protocols

  • Header and Body content

  • Broken or shortened urls

  • Multiple sender reputation systems

However, SpamAssassin is a complex and dynamic program, including scores from other spam filters in its own score calculation.

If you need more information about your SpamAssassin Score and how to improve it, don't hesitate to reach us on our live chat.

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