Checking the SPAM score of an e-mail message

Learn how to check how close an e-mail message was to being tagged as SPAM.

If you look at the e-mail header in the e-mail source, you will see a line that looks similar to the following:

X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.7 required=2.0

In the above example, 1.7 represents the SPAM score. 2.0 represents your “Tagging Threshold” setting in the control panel. For this message to have “[SPAM]” in the subject line, it would have to have a score above 2.0, and in this case it does not.

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Posted 2007-12-29 in E-mail    Popularity: 17%

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