On 2023-03-01 at 10:12:50 UTC-0500 (Wed, 1 Mar 2023 16:12:50 +0100)
Fourhundred Thecat <400the...@gmx.ch>
is rumored to have said:
On 2023-03-01 16:05, Bill Cole wrote:
On 2023-03-01 at 07:05:11 UTC-0500 (Wed, 1 Mar 2023 20:05:11 +0800)
Ken Young <ken@highwinds.cloud>
Disregard mail-tester.com's misuse of SpamAssassin. It does not
reflect
the real-world use of SA and is chronically out of date, with
apparently
localized scores applied to obsolete rules. This is enough of a
problem
that if I see a citation of mail-tester.com in a formal SA bug
report, I
will reject it as invalid by default. With a scolding.
This is particularly true for deliverability issues with major
mailbox
providers. They do not use SA.
are there other online testing websites, that give better real-life
results than mail-tester ?
Not to my knowledge. It is a fundamentally flawed concept. There is no
definitive standard for deliverability and no broadly accepted set of
best practices that are anywhere near a complete solution.
No 2 mail systems use the same filtering. Even if you look at all sites
using one tool, like SpamAssassin, there is diversity because all good
anti-spam tools are designed for local customization and because nearly
all sites use layered protection, with their own bespoke collection of
tactics around any common tools.
For the major mailbox providers, there seems to be some convergent
evolution. They all use their own unique systems, but the similarities
of their mail streams and strategic choices (consequences of their scale
and diversity) have led to similar behaviors. That can be misleading,
because their tools are NOT the same and more importantly are NOT like
the publicly available tools.
In the case of SpamAssassin (the most broadly deployed publicly
available spam filtering tool) you can test a message against a generic
installation, but that won't tell you much that is useful because a
generic installation isn't very good for anyone.
--
Bill Cole
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(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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