How to measure an email blast for possible spam ratings

2006-04-18 Thread Jerry Johnson
Does anyone know of a program or service or group that can help rate an email message for possible spam rating in a variety of systems? What is a good list of spam filters/systems that should be tested against? Is anyone good at this and can give advice? Thanks, Jerry Johnson

Re: How to measure an email blast for possible spam ratings

2006-04-18 Thread Robert Everland III
You're never going to get an accurate answer to this. There are so many solutions and so many different ways of detecing spam that your email will never rank the same. Then you have the issue of trying to test against the propiatary(sp?) of AOL, Earthlink, Yahoo, and Hotmail. You aren't going

Re: How to measure an email blast for possible spam ratings

2006-04-18 Thread Robert Munn
Is it a message you want to send out? I would just try sending it to different addresses at big providers and see what you get. I have SpamAssassin 3 running on my mail server, and it does a pretty good job, but some spam still gets through and I suspect the occasional real email gets caught,

Re: How to measure an email blast for possible spam ratings

2006-04-18 Thread Jerry Johnson
Look for ways to reign in *ahem* active marketing types, hopefully with an outsourceable solution. Something for them to run an outgoing email through before they try to find an email vendor to send it. These are double opt-in lists, but some of the content is periodically being flagged as spam

Re: How to measure an email blast for possible spam ratings

2006-04-18 Thread Robert Munn
Email is broken. Just totally broken. I get a 500KB file twice a day filled with spam. And I only have about ten mailboxes on the email server. Just ridiculous. On 4/18/06, Jerry Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look for ways to reign in *ahem* active marketing types, hopefully with an