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SpamAssassin: A practical guide to integration and configuration

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SpamAssassin: A practical guide to integration and configuration

Overview of this book

As a busy administrator, you know Spam is a major distraction in todays network. The effects range from inappropriate content arriving in the mailboxes up to contact email addresses placed on a website being deluged with unsolicited mail, causing valid enquiries and sales leads to be lost and wasting employee time. The perception of the problem of spam is as big as the reality. In response to the growing problem of spam, a number of free and commercial applications and services have been developed to help network administrators and email users combat spam. Its up to you to choose and then get the most out of an antispam solution. Free to use, flexible, and effective, SpamAssassin has become the most popular open source antispam application. Its unique combination of power and flexibility make it the right choice. This book will now help you set up and optimize SpamAssassin for your network.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
SpamAssassin
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Introduction
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...