What is the final spam rating on Magento?
Each parameter can affect final spam rating in a negative or positive way. The decision whether the e-mail is spammy or not is based on the final score. Average and recommended by SpamAssassin score to treat e-mail as spam is 6.6. If score is lower – email will go through. If it’s higher – it will go into spam folder.
How to delete spam customer accounts from Magento?
There is no simple way of properly recognizing spam customer accounts. In order to delete them programmatically, you have to be sure you’re not going to delete a real customer. It would be very unpleasant situation for a customer to be deleted from the website.
Do you need an extension to use Magento?
Magento does not work with SMTP out of the box, so you need an extension for that. The drawbacks are that there are only a few extensions on the market that send e-mails using their own implementation and will not work through SMTP. Also you should maintain the server to make sure it works correctly and is backed up often.
Which is the best way to send e-mail in Magento?
A good solution is to use SMTP server to send e-mails in Magento. It can be a public one (such as Gmail, Yahoo and so on, if you trust them), or your private mail server. We at Amasty use our own mail server based on Zimbra. There are also some paid SMTP services available on the web.
What is the default line length in Magento?
Magento by default uses 200 for quote-printable line length. This can be changed by overriding Zend_Mime class. Nowadays you cannot imagine an e-mail without images at all. It is good to embed images directly into your e-mail message, but not to link them from remote sources.
How does a spam filter affect an e-mail?
When an e-mail comes to your server, and you have spam filter enabled, it will check the incoming message for a list of parameters. Each parameter can affect final spam rating in a negative or positive way. The decision whether the e-mail is spammy or not is based on the final score.