Reverse DNS would seem to be the most important factor, make sure your
mail server has RDNS setup.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 October 2004 01:28
To: CF-Talk
Subject: AOL and spam filtering
I use the CFMX cfmail tag
I've recently had to go through the whole AOL white listing process. Our
mail server was experiencing a temporary block at AOL's mail servers. I
phoned AOL and they explained that this temporary block was due to the fact
that a certain percentage of the mail we were sending was being reported as
: 25 October 2004 12:35
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: AOL and spam filtering
I've recently had to go through the whole AOL white listing
process. Our mail server was experiencing a temporary block
at AOL's mail servers. I phoned AOL and they explained that
this temporary block was due to the fact
if you use cfmailparam to change the x-mailer param you'll probably
get the messages through.
By default CFMX sets xmailer to:
X-Mailer: ColdFusion MX Application Server
which is probably what is being caught by AOL as spam. Change it to
appear as MS Outlook with Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build
There could be more to it than that. I've personally never altered
the X-Mailer, and many of my clients email thousands of pieces to AOL
members daily without trouble. However CF used to have at least one
problem that needed a param to prop it up, which I still use (not sure
if MX fixes it but I
Thank you all for your suggestions. I have implemented both the mailer-id and x-mailer
and will see what happens.
Strange thing is that I am not sending large amounts. Each day only about 850 emails
are being sent and out of that only a percentage is AOL.
Sebastian
Hey..
If the error is not resolved.. checkout the following..
http://postmaster.aol.com/guidelines/sender.html
Also if you run your own SMTP server.. good idea to sign up.. for AOL
white list.. so you get a report every time.. someone reports.. one of
your messages as spam.. and
i seem to recall that your server must conform too their standards as well, typical
aol crap or they will blacklist u or if someone else thats on your server (in a shared
enviroment) gets the bl then so do u. I have always heard to only shoot mail out in
lots of like 10-12 at a time so that u
I use the CFMX cfmail tag to send emails from a database query. Alot of AOL users are
reporting that they are not receiving them. Most of the time this is due to AOL
recogniging the emails from the cfmail tag as spam and it ends up in the persons spam
folder. Many people are not computer savvy
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