Remember both scores are strictly informational and do not guarantee the deliverability of your email. Acoustic Campaign was modified to ignore some faulty error messages from SpamAssassin and may also be using a different ruleset. The Email Insights (Litmus) version of SpamAssassin uses the latest version of the program and its default settings. Your SpamAssassin Score in Acoustic Campaign might be different from the SpamAssassin Score in the Email Insights Spam Test. Spam Assassin scores in Email Insights and Acoustic Campaign

The lower your score, the less likely your email is to be marked spam. Generally, your email should have a score of 5.0 or lower to be considered passing. The higher the positive score is for your email, the higher the probability that the message is spam. The scores can be positive or negative, with positive values indicating spam and negative values indicating not spam. SpamAssassin comes with a large set of rules which are applied to determine whether an email is a spam or not. In both cases, a score of 3 or more is to be avoided, but Litmus will always report if the email was considered spam by MessageLabs as a separate calculation to the score.

Sometimes, MessageLabs processes the email using its own filter, which reports a very similar score to SpamAssassin but rounded to the nearest whole number. So even with a score of 4, the email might be marked as spam. On most emails, MessageLabs reports the score from a configured SpamAssassin installation, but there is no threshold in this case. MessageLabs is a server-side spam filter that scores in two different ways. In these cases, Litmus will report the email as considered spam and mark it with a score of 10. For Barracuda, an ideal score is below 3.5.ДЇor some very spam-like emails, Barracuda will quarantine the email. Barracuda reports a single score between 0 and 10 and a flag indicating if the email is considered to be spam. Barracuda Spam FirewallД«arracuda Spam Firewall is a hardware spam filter. Barracuda, MessageLabs, Spam Assassin, Outlook, and Webmail/ISP clients have their own way of handling spam filters. These scores show you the likelihood a spam filter will catch your email and put it in a user's spam inbox. To see how an email is going to be received, you can run a spam test on your emails and receive a spam filter score.

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