I recently used the email spam score analyzer through SpamAssassin to check and make sure my newsletters had a low score. If you are familiar, this is a tool which detects the likelyhood of an email message being spam. The higher the score, the more likely it is spam, which means it is more likely to be filtered out of the receivers email inbox. Ouch..
Usually a score of 2 or below is fairly good and works fine, but I like to aim for zero. Recently, I got the notification from SpamAssassin stating:
Uses %-escapes inside a URL’s hostname
If you are wondering what this means and how to fix it, make sure you check the html of that email. I realized that it was a simple space in the URL in the html code. When you hit the space bar in a html editor, it creates the %20
It would look like this in html: <a href=”http://www.yourdomain.com%20“>http://www.yourdomain.com </a>
Solution to Fix
To fix this and remove the error, simply view the html code and delete the %20. After I did that, I received a score of 0! I hope it helps. Leave a comment if it did.
