[MlMt] How is span score computed?

[Bill Cole]

On 2024-09-26 at 17:13:46 UTC-0400 (Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:13:46 -0700)
Randall Gellens <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> On 26 Sep 2024, at 8:09, Bill Cole wrote:
>
>> MailMate itself does not score messages. The scores it can detect are 
>> those determined either by SpamSieve locally or by your email 
>> provider's spam filters. Without knowing which is relevant in your 
>> case, it isn't possible to say how to adjust it. So if you have 
>> installed SpamSieve, consult its documentation for how to adjust its 
>> scoring. If you haven't installed SpamSieve, the score is being added 
>> by your mailbox provider and you should ask them what adjustments are 
>> available.
>
> How does an email provider mark their spam score? Is there a header 
> field that they use that MailMate recognizes?

Yes. I believe MM recognizes various headers generated by different 
tools. I believe X-Spam-Score and X-Spam-Status (both optionally added 
by SpamAssassin) are both recognized, and possibly the X-less 
equivalents


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