https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7953
Cian <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Resolution|INVALID |--- CC| |[email protected] | |om Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED --- Comment #2 from Cian <[email protected]> --- >Citing mail-tester.com in a bug report here REDUCES your credibility. That >site is NOT an accurate representation of SpamAssassin scoring in the wild Ok, I accept that. As someone who isn't hosting his own mail server, and therefore isn't personally running SA, it was a convenient place for me to go. Is there a better site that I can use to test so I don't have to install and configure SA locally? >SA is *designed* *intentionally* to have rules whose scores are well below the >spam threshold (5 by default) match on non-spam messages I thought about mentioning the spam threshold in my first message, since I was aware of it, but I ended up leaving it out. I understand that 5 is the default threshold and I am (according to mail-tester, which I recognize now is flawed) below it, but my mail is confirmed to be going to junk. Is it possible that sys-admins at several large organizations are using SA with a stricter threshold? I understand that their choice to use SA in a non-recommended way isn't your fault, but it raises the stakes on broad rules and makes false positives more likely. >See https://ruleqa.spamassassin.org for the details of how our rules score >against the manually classified corpora of ham and spam provided by some of >our users. This is an open system and we are always eager to add new >dependable sources to those corpora to get a wider sample. You can see in that >system that the rules you see as problematic match messages that are 97-100% >spam Thank you for sharing that tool with me, I was not aware of it. Am I understanding correctly that the QA for PDS_OTHER_BAD_TLD is based on 17 corpuses? And that those corpora come from the submissions of just 9 testers? Is it possible that there are industries not represented in that QA? If none of those 9 testers happens to work within the space technology sector, it seems natural that they would not receive much Ham from .space domains, even though there is a whole industry where it would be expected to receive mail from those domains. I'm not writing this to hassle you, Bill, I'm here because my whole business depends on it. I have done what research I could, followed the directions from NameCheap and Zoho when setting up my domain and email, I set up DKIM and DMARC and SPF, I have looked through the SpamAssassin wiki. I could take the advice from the SA wiki and get a deliverability consultant, but besides the fact that I can't afford it, it seems absurd to pay hundreds of dollars to be able to send a few handcrafted emails a day to individual recipients. I could write to the sys-admin of each and every organization I want to contact and ask to be whitelisted, but I suspect I know how that will go. If you have any idea what else I can do, any other lead I can follow, I'll go after it and be out of your hair, but I'm here because the only *hint* of a reason that might explain why my emails aren't going through is points deducted on SA for having a domain that ends in ".space" -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
