You can also set SpamAssassin to automatically delete messages that have the determined score or higher. The default score is 5 and if you are not familiar with spam scores, we recommend that you leave it at this value. The lower the score number is, the more tough SpamAssassin will be on the emails. The bigger threshold value you set, the fewer messages will be filtered. The score can be any number between 1 and 10. To enable is, simply click the button on the following page:Īfter you enable Apache SpamAssassin you can set a score based on which the tool will filter incoming messages. To start using Apache SpamAssassin, log in your cPanel and navigate to SpamAssassin icon: If your hosting provider uses Apache SpamAssassin, you can find the tool in your control panel (such as cPanel). By default, the CS Department uses a threshold of 7 for its spam classification. SpamAssassins default rule scores have been chosen based on experience with large quantities of both spam and non-spam messages. The default setting is 5.0, which is aggressive. Some rules have negative scores, indicating that messages with those features are probably not spam.

If the score of the incoming message is higher than the value you have determined (by default, the score set in SpamAssassin is 5), the tool will “tell” the mail server to delete the message. Use the requiredscore text box to set the required score to mark a message as spam. SpamAssassin provides an API for an email sending component, in this case, the Email Sending Daemon, to test an email message against the scoring system and.

Apache SpamAssassin is a tool which filters spam messages that go in your mailbox, based on spam characteristics.

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