SpamAssassin Settings

This screen allows you to edit the SpamAssassin parameters. To save changes, click the Save button.

SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam. Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify spam.
Depending on the results of tests the SpamAssassin assigns a certain score to an e-mail. The greater a score - the more suspicious an e-mail.
The Spamassassin does not delete or reject any of your e-mails. It just filters it and helps sorting it.
For more details, please refer to the SpamAssassin website.

Fields Description

Field Name | Description
Enabled | You can check this box to enable the SpamAssassin spam filtering for your System.
Filter sensitivity | The threshold score value required for an e-mail to be considered as spam.

The prefix to append to the subject of suspicious e-mails field

The prefix (specified by you) the SpamAssassin will mark the subject of messages supposed to be spam. For the SpamAssassin versions above 6.0 (which we currently use) you can set the threshold score to 10. However, at first you can make the threshold even higher (greater than 10) to avoid possible misoperations in mail sorting since the SpamAssassin is rather sensitive filter.

Sender whitelist

The e-mail addresses you would not like to be considered as spam. Type the e-mail addresses in the relevant fields, divided by spaces, several or one per line.
The SpamAssassin tests the messages received from "white" addresses in its usual manner, but finally takes off a certain number from the resulting score. As a result, the message received from the "white" address has additional chance to get the score below the threshold value and not suspected to be a spam.

Sender blacklist

The e-mail addresses you would like to be considered as spam. Type the e-mail addresses in the relevant fields, divided by spaces, several or one per line.
Similarly to the "white" messages, the SpamAssassin tests the "black" e-mail but finally adds a certain number to the resulting score. As a result, the the message received from the "black" address has additional chance to get the score above the threshold value and suspected to be a spam.