Well, in my experience, getting mail into the inbox can be different depending on the service of the receiver of the e-mail.
AOL: Sign your server up for whitelisting at http://postmaster.aol.com. If you're on a shared server, you can't do this, though, so you'd need to be on a dedicated server. Once whitelisted, I've not had trouble getting AOL mail through for several months now. MSN & Hotmail: Good luck. I've never had any success getting MSN to offer a whitelisting. Evidently, www.bondedsender.com has some deal with them, but it can be pricy if you get ANY spam complaints at all (even false spam complaints). Yahoo: You can apply for 'delivery to the inbox' instead of in the bulk mail folder, but I've never been successful in getting approved for this. Do some searching in their help section for the application. They 'monitor' your mail for a few days and then tell you what they think about it. Bottom line is if you have a large amount of mail coming out of your server to @yahoo.com addresses, you're giong to end up in the bulk mail folder (unless the receiver has added you to their safe sender list. Other mail servers: You can use the free tool at: http://spamcheck.sitesell.com/ To check and see how many mail server filters generally will receive your content. This will help eliminate some blocking, but ultimately, you will end up in junk mail & bulk mail folders if you're sending a large quantity of mail from your server. ** One thing to keep in mind...most mail servers & providers base whether your mail is classified as bulk mail based on the quantity of mail coming from your SERVER, not your DOMAIN. This is important to understand as if you're on a shared server, or if you share your server with others, you might get classifed as bulk because of their activities. This is by no means an exhaustive list, just what I can come up with from memory. Hope it helps. I'm sure some others will have some comments here for you too. Oh, one more thing...plain text e-mails are most always more likely to be delivered than HTML e-mails. I send all my e-commerce 'receipt' e-mails in plain text and then a 'welcome' e-mail in HTML nicely formatted separately. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 1:48 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Lowering spam profile of CF generated emails I have a simple PayPal based registration system for our site: www.sierraOutdoorRecreation.com. Upon completion of the payment process, I send out a standard confirmation e-mail with initial username and password and transaction data. We are having a fairly high incidence of these e-mails being trapped in spam filters and not reaching the intended recipients. What can I do to make these e-mails less spam looking? ****************************************************************************************** The information contained in this message, including attachments, may contain privileged or confidential information that is intended to be delivered only to the person identified above. If you are not the intended recipient, or the person responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, ALLTEL requests that you immediately notify the sender and asks that you do not read the message or its attachments, and that you delete them without copying or sending them to anyone else. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:216236 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
