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SpamAssassin: A practical guide to integration and configuration

You're reading from  SpamAssassin: A practical guide to integration and configuration

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2004
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781904811121
Pages 240 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

SpamAssassin
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Introduction
1. Introducing Spam 2. Spam and Anti-Spam Techniques 3. Open Relays 4. Protecting Email Addresses 5. Detecting Spam 6. Installing SpamAssassin 7. Configuration Files 8. Using SpamAssassin 9. Bayesian Filtering 10. Look and Feel 11. Network Tests 12. Rules 13. Improving Filtering 14. Performance 15. Housekeeping and Reporting 16. Building an Anti-Spam Gateway 17. Email Clients 18. Choosing Other Spam Tools Glossary

Valid Bulk Email Delivery


Mailing lists can have thousands of recipients, and as a result spam email message recognition services will be exposed to these messages enough to alter the results of a query. Some commercial email is only sent to subscribers who opt-in to a list, so the email is not spam, but is in fact desired email. However, the rules in message recognition services may falsely identify a desired or valid bulk email as spam. This is because the content can sometimes look like spam, especially to a filter. However, all emails can suffer from false detection. Emails discussing products in the finance and medical areas are likely to suffer, due to the number of spam rules targeting these types of products.

If some ham email is incorrectly detected as spam, try the following:

  • Personalize each email, or send a unique email to a small number of recipients. If the email body is different, then message recognition service will treat each email as unique. The emails can also be sent...

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