Thanks! That was very informative and helpful.
Regards,
Bill
On 26 Sep 2024, at 11:09, Bill Cole wrote:
On 2024-09-26 at 09:47:21 UTC-0400 (Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:47:21 -0400)
William Allen <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
I subscribe to my local newspaper’s daily bulletin. Recently I
noticed I wasn’t getting it anymore and after looking a the junk
folder saw it had a spam score of 4.0. Just looking at the mailings I
can’t see any difference. Is there any way to understand what is
triggering a score for a particular piece of mail? Likewise, is there
a way to override the filter for a particular sender?
MailMate itself does not score messages. The scores it can detect are
those determined either by SpamSieve locally or by your email
provider's spam filters. Without knowing which is relevant in your
case, it isn't possible to say how to adjust it. So if you have
installed SpamSieve, consult its documentation for how to adjust its
scoring. If you haven't installed SpamSieve, the score is being added
by your mailbox provider and you should ask them what adjustments are
available.
SOME (not all) mailbox providers claim that by removing the $Junk flag
and/or adding a $NotJunk flag and/or moving mail from a "Junk" or
"Spam" mailbox to the INBOX will be noticed by their filter
maintenance systems and lead to future similar messages no0t being
marked as spam. SOME also claim that if you add the sender to an
address book linked to their mail system (such as Google, iCloud, or
Exchange Online/MS365) it will prevent future mail from being labeled
Spam.
[Puts on Apache SpamAssassin maintainer hat for the following tangent]
One of the most common free and open-source toolkits included by mail
providers as a part of their spam filters is SpamAssassin, maintained
by the Apache Software Foundation. Anyone can use SpamAssassin and
modify it however they like. It is sometimes useful to use a
SpamAssassin scan to figure out what may be considered spam by systems
that use it *and* by other tools that use similar scanning approaches.
If you're comfortable working with command line tools and understand
how to setup a Perl runtime environment (probably with MacPorts or
Homebrew) it can be useful to install SpamAssassin and use it to
answer such questions as "why was this marked as spam?"
Unfortunately, the most easily findable website offering the general
public SpamAssassin scans is miserably misconfigured and misleading.
If you do find and use it or any similar tool online, you should
understand that any spam filtering requires site-specific information
to work well, so public scanners are always going to make mistakes
based on their lack of knowledge. I don't link to public scanners
because they have that innate flaw, but some people find them helpful.
--
Bill Cole
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(AKA @[email protected] and many *@billmail.scconsult.com
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