On 9/15/2014 10:56 AM, Tom Burton-West wrote: > I just sent a very long post with 5 or 6 links to relevant articles in > response to a thread on the Solr users list and got a message my mail was > rejected due to a spam score. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to > change the message so I can send it to the list. (Is there some reference > I need to look at to understand the message?) Below is the message I > received: > "... tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for > the recipient domain lucene.apache.org bymx1.eu.apache.org. [192.87.106.230 > ]. > > The error that the other server returned was: > 552 spam score (6.2) exceeded threshold (HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_ > LOW,SPF_NEUTRAL,URIBL_SBL
The number one thing most people can do to keep their messages from being treated as spam is to send them as plain text only, not HTML. The methods for achieving this vary with the mail client you're using. Some of those SpamAssassin rules result in your score going *down*, here are the rules that increased your spam score: https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Rules/HTML_MESSAGE https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Rules/URIBL_SBL It looks like one or more of the URLs that you included is on a domain flagged by one of the more reliable blacklists -- Spamhaus. I don't know whether sending as plain text would be enough of a drop in the spam score to overcome that one, but it wouldn't hurt. Thanks, Shawn
