Spam & Scoring

Commands for spam detection rules and message scoring.

:spam

Define a rule to detect and label spam based on a header regex.

• spam <regex> <format> — match a header and produce a spam label

spam "X-Spam-Score: ([0-9.]+).*"   "Spam: %1"
spam "X-Spam-Status: Yes"          "Spam"
spam "X-Bogosity: Spam"            "Bogus"

:nospam

Remove a spam detection rule.

• nospam * — remove all spam rules

• nospam <regex> — remove a specific rule

nospam *
nospam "X-Bogosity: Spam"

:score

Assign a score to messages matching a pattern. Scores are cumulative.

• score <pattern> <value> — add a score value to matching messages

score "~f boss@company.com"   10
score "~s urgent"              5
score "~t neomutt-devel@"      3
score "~f spammer@"          -50

:unscore

Remove scoring rules.

• unscore * — remove all scoring rules

• unscore <pattern> — remove a specific rule

unscore *
unscore "~f spammer@"