Make SpamAssassin Mark Spam in the Subject

               By default, SpamAssassin does not alter the Subject line of detected spam. This default setting is also the right one, I think (no need to remove "*****SPAM*****" when I reply).If your email client does not allow filtering on arbitrary headers, tagging spam in the Subject: line is useful, however. Now you can tell the program to look for "*****SPAM*****" in the Subject:...

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Whitelist a Domain in SpamAssassin

          Using its comprehensive set of rules and Bayesian analysis, SpamAssassin catches an impressive amount of spam with hardly any false positives.Hardly any. To reduce this number even further you can whitelist certain newsletters, top candidates for being erroneously classified as spam.To make sure TechSupp247 updates always get through uninterrupted, whitelist "TechSupp247.com" in SpamAssassin.Whitelist...

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Filtering Foreign Language Spam

                 Not everything I don't understand is spam. Most of the things don't understand are not. But when the majority of the email in a language I can read is junk, the spam percentage is even higher for mail using charsets that make my computer pause (and, obviously, look for them in hidden corners of the disk).By default, SpamAssassin treats all languages equally....

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SpamAssassin : Security Add-on

             SpamAssassin provides efficient scoring spam filters, support for SPF sender authentication and Bayesian filtering. While SpamAssassin catches most spam out of the box, the threshold possibly has to be adjusted to eliminate false positives.Advantages:    SpamAssassin has a high spam detection rate     Uses sophisticated scoring filters, Bayesian...

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Whitelist a Domain in MailWasher Pro

                The various filtering techniques in MailWasher Pro are pretty effective.unfortunately, they can get too effective and catch good mail. Fortunately, it's particularly easy to prevent this for known senders in MailWasher Pro by whitelisting individual senders or domains.   I have whitelisted "TechSupp247.com" immediately after signing up for an TechSupp247...

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Spam Filter in MailWasher

               The best way to combat spam in MailWasher Pro is its Bayesian filter. It works so well because it analyses everything about a message and compares it to existing knowledge, a lot like we humans spot junk mail.Of course, MailWasher Pro does not have any previous knowledge when you first enable the Bayesian filter. It needs to be taught with a few messages so it learns...

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Avoid important mail filtering : MailWasher

                Not all spam is dirty, but MailWasher aims to clean it all up. Sometimes definitely clean and good mail falls victim to the filtering, though. Newsletters are particularly likely to become false positives, even in MailWasher.To prevent your favorite newsletters from being filtered as spam by MailWasher, you can add their senders as friends. I've whitelisted "about.com"...

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