Tech Tips for Non-Tech People!
Original Air Date: Aug 27, 2018
Spam Message Testing Website
Our email has become so full of spam messages that the various tools designed to detect them can often mistake legit messages, (ham) for spam.
Most people don’t know that specific words in a message and how messages are constructed can actually make your legit communications look like a scammers message to automated filters.
Images in the message that aren’t needed or specific words can dramatically increase your message’s ‘spam score’ but how do you know what is and isn’t acceptable?
A free web-based tool that will allow you to test for the spam score of any message at http://mail-tester.com is an excellent way to know.
The next time one of your messages ends up in someone’s spam filter or they keep telling you that they never got the message, get the spam score of the message to see if that’s the cause.
You simply send the message to a special address that’s provided and then after a few seconds, you click a link to check your message’s spam score.
You will be presented with a score with optional details on the message including whether your address has been blacklisted, which could be the cause of many messages being blocked.
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