In the example given, I'd enter 4.0 into this field. In the required score field, put in the new spam score that you would like SpamAssassin to mark spam at. 5) Search for Scan outgoing messages for spam and reject based on defined Apache SpamAssassin score. 4) Choose Basic Editor option and select the Apache SpamAssassin Options tab. 3) Select Exim Configuration Manager from the page. Click the SpamAssassin Configuration button.Ħ. 2) Go to the Service Configuration option. Apache SpamAssassin Options Scan outgoing messages for spam and reject based on the Apache SpamAssassin internal spamscore setting Off Scan outgoing messages for spam and reject based on defined Apache SpamAssassin score (Minimum: 0.1 Maximum: 99. Login to the cPanel for your hosting package, commonly found at /cpanel ( should be replaced with your actual domain name.ĥ. If you frequently received spammy messages with a score of 4 or higher, you would want to set your spam score to 4.ģ.

The score on this message in particular is 4.2. Near the bottom of the message headers you will see something that looks like this: In Microsoft Entourage you can do this by opening the message, clicking on the Message menu and selecting Internet Headers. In Apple's Mail Application you can do this by opening a message and then going under the View menu, select the Message sub-menu and choose Long Headers. This calculated spam score helps determine the. You will now want to view the long header informaiton. Apache SpamAssassin examines every message for spam characteristics and assigns them a calculated spam score. Open any message you receive in your mail application of choice. Make sure you have enabled SpamAssassin.Ģ. Most of the complexity is in the rules, but. To determine the SpamAssassin score of any message:ġ. If the total score for all the rules triggered by a message reaches the threshold, that message is marked as spam.

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