Actually, email with a weight of 5-10 go into a spam folder. We also keep spam in a different folder for 10-15 and delete everything over 15 (that's for our own domain; the thresholds may be higher for some of our client domains). Generally, these numbers work pretty well: we get 80% spam for messages in the weight 5-10 and 99% spam in the range 10+. Just lately, we've been getting a lot of spam getting through with a weights 0-5, so they don't get marked as spam at all. In fact, it's become a real deluge the last couple of weeks.
In the particular case of this list, I use this mail account only for interaction on the Imail and Declude lists. The *only* messages I get with weights over 5 in this mailbox are the occassional ones from Len, but even that doesn't happen with all of his messages. Right now, I've got four messages from Len for the entire month of February that earned weights of 5, which gets them put into a spam folder. And I've never had anyone else with a weight of 5+. I naturally expect no spam to this address because all of the subscribers here are email-professionals (more or less). My surprise was at those four messages from Len. Anyway, thanks for clarifying my question. Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Unexpected spam filtering > > > > X-Spam-Tests-Failed: BADHEADERS, ROUTING, WEIGHT5, WEIGHT5r [5] > > > >Is there more detail in the Declude logs as to which BADHEADERS its > >complaining about? I didn't see anything strange. > > The Message-ID: header was not RFC-compliant. > > >What does ROUTING mean, is it a complaint about the localhost 127.0.0.1 > >address? > > No, the problem is that the E-mail is sent from the United States to a > United States mailserver, routed through a foreign country. Perfectly > legal, but it wastes intercontinental bandwidth (and used to be very > commonly abused by spammers, but not nearly as much today). > > The real reason the E-mail was considered spam is because the user has > *very* strict spam control set up (blocking E-mail with a weight of 5, > whereas most people don't block until a weight of 10 or 20 is reached). > -Scott > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
