topic Re: PN 'spam' filter. in Email

PN 'spam' filter.

jab1 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:50:07 GMT

This doesn't really matter to me, but just out of interest, and because I'm bored, I checked the full headers on four emails I received today, and they all reported a 'spam score of 99 - I assume this means Cloudmark thinks they were all pure spam?

They weren't - two were 'test' messages I sent myself from one of my iCloud accounts, one from eBay, and one from the New York Times.

I have PN spam filtering turned off, so they came through, but I wonder what would happen to them if it was on?

Re: PN 'spam' filter.

Townman — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:56:49 GMT

Hi John,

If spam filter were switched on and discard obvious spam were enabled, you would not have seen them.

To understand what gave rise to the SPAM rating, one would need to inspect the other headers too - think SPF / DKIM / DMARC verification.

After that it is down the the content ... or indeed the lack of it!

Re: PN 'spam' filter.

jab1 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:25:33 GMT

Cheers, @Townman . I understand all of that. The two 'tests' I sent myself were short maybe a dozen or so words, the eBay one was a kind of standard marketing message, and the NYT one was mostly plain text with one (NYT) link.

That is why, many years ago, i dispensed with PN filtering - I discovered it was blocking legit mail, and as I had Mailwasher installed anyway, I decided to disable it - I, not Cloudmark, will decide what mail I receive.

I'll do a deeper dive later.

Re: PN 'spam' filter.

jab1 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:09:51 GMT

@Townman wrote:

Hi John,

If spam filter were switched on and discard obvious spam were enabled, you would not have seen them.

@Townman wrote:

Hi John,

If spam filter were switched on and discard obvious spam were enabled, you would not have seen them.

To understand what gave rise to the SPAM rating, one would need to inspect the other headers too - think SPF / DKIM / DMARC verification.

After that it is down the the content ... or indeed the lack of it!

After that it is down the the content ... or indeed the lack of it!

Just checked the eBay message, the only one those mentioned is DKIM 'DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=reply.ebay.co.uk.'