Test My Spam Filter

Posted by Guest Author

December 14, 2009

A spam filter test is the method used to determine whether a certain message is or isn’t spam. Who needs a spam filter test? Web developers that conduct email marketing campaigns will first work with such programs to see how their newsletters are perceived by spam blockers. A web marketing campaign can be thus tested against spam blockage tools. Here are a few tips to check how things work.

The spam features in a newsletter are easy to identify if you have a mailing list software that generates the messages. There are modern programs that have the feature incorporated while others require subscribing to get access to the service. The help documentation of an email blaster should help you identify the spam filter test application. The testing mechanism could be outdated but even when they don’t correspond to the latest trend, they can still provide some form of guidance.

The spam filter test variants include reports on headers as well as spam scoring details. The tests for Outlook and Outlook Express can even be performed online. There are other concerns related to the spam filter tests and these represent the evaluation of anti-spam programs from the perspective of the user. Let’s see how such a test can be useful from the other perspective, as an anti-spam tool.

The really good anti-spam tools are those that can distinguish legitimate messages from real spam, and not the programs that block as many emails as possible. A spam filter test should be able to find out how many legitimate emails a anti-spam tool blocks and how many real spam messages pass undetected. Software designers thus aim to train programs to learn how to avoid such mistakes.

The spam filter testing has to be performed with an email that is unfamiliar for the program, and not with one used in the training procedure. If during training, the same email address has been used, the spam filter test results will be unrealistic or inconclusive. In case such experiments are successful all the way, then, the Internet may become a spam free zone.

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