Many mail packages have different spam ratings/scores- but in general the fact that it has html in the message will increase the spam score quite a bit. Other things are no subject, attachments of certain types, etc. The spam ratings look at things like the message body (html or plain text) whether the message is being sent To: and the address of the recipient is in the To: (as opposed to another address and the CC: or BCC: fields are populated. Some of the popular packages that are used for the spam scores are: Postfix (Mail Delivery), Amavis (Mail Scanner), SpamAssassin (Spam Identifier), as well as built in tools for Outlook and other mail clients or spam software packages on the desktop. If Yahoo is reporting it and the recipients are using the Yahoo Web mail to read the messages then you need to start with this site: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/abuse/index.html is the starting point specifically for Yahoo Spam policy, etc.
Other issues are how the mail server is set up- is there a reverse DNS entry on it, having a mail server with a dynamic IP address, etc. MSN/Hotmail (Microsoft), maybe Yahoo and AOL and some others are also using or requiring either both SPF and or DomainKeys to try and prove the validity of messages. Read over the info in this link: http://www.mailtraq.com/708/ Finally if the server subscribes to any of the RBL lists, then again you could be rejected if you are listed there or your IP range is listed. All it takes is a report or 2 of spam to get listed and banned. Richard Sheasley Accurate Design Systems At 01:06 AM 2008-05-16 +1200, you wrote: >On 5/15/08, William Piper ><<mailto:billy%40kersting.com>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have found this in the past with the mail() function of PHP. After > > messing with the headers forever I never could get it to go to yahoo or > > gmail accounts without going to the spam folder. > >Is there an online place / service - where i can email - & it >automatically replies with a "spam rating" ? > >Basically, I have regular / automated reports - Generated by my PHP >script - They get sent to my Gmal / Other addresses Ok.. > >However - they never get to Yahoogroups (& YAhoogroups logs dont >record it at all...) > >They USED to - with no problems but last year - 6 months ago - >Yahoogroups stopped them.... > >PS - My emails are plain text (no HTML) > >-- >G >NZ community groups - <mailto:community%40kwister.com>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Freecycle Auckland :- ><http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AucklandFreecycle/>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AucklandFreecycle/ > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
