Spam Score

You can filter incoming messages by evaluating their spam score and applying custom rules based on that score.

Behind the scenes, our system uses SpamAssassin to analyze each email and assign a numerical score.

A SpamAssassin score typically ranges from –10 to +10, where higher numbers indicate a higher likelihood that the message is spam.

As a general rule, SpamAssassin treats messages with a score of 5 or above as spam.

To make this easier to understand and configure, we’ve simplified the score into three filtering levels:

  • Strict (Score of 3) – Filters spam with a risk of false positives

  • Balanced (Score of 5) – Filters spam with low risk of false positives

  • Lenient (Score of 7) – Blocks obvious spam with minimal false positives

Why there is no options for score of 10 ?

We think that if you want to have a high score (meaning you want all the spam to arrive) then a rule is not needed here, that's why we don't have a score filter of 10.

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