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Spam score

A spam score rates how much an email looks like spam to a filter, from its words, links, headers and format.

Spam score

A spam score is a number a spam filter gives an email after testing it against many signals: the words it uses, its links and images, its headers, the way it is formatted. Each signal adds or takes away points, and above a threshold the email is treated as spam. Checking the score before sending tells you which drafts a filter would likely put aside and why.

In Scrisly, every draft is checked with rspamd, an open-source spam filter, after it is written and again after every edit. A draft over your threshold is flagged with its main signals, and is never approved automatically.