email-spam

email bounce from mail-abuse why ?

when i try to send email from asp script i got email bounce from [email protected] why this ? is this some issue with spam or my domain is under spam list ..? if yes how to remove this..? ...

Whitelisting website email so it is not rejected as spam

What are the processes I need to go through to make sure emails sent from my web server are not rejected as spam? This question is for legitimate site emails that members have requested like a daily newsletter which is generated and run in a nightly process, as well as confirmation emails. Some of the ideas I've heard are: Making sur...

Email to be sent out from a dedicated server with different IP

We have three domains hosted on one dedicated server each with its own dedicated IP. Domain A - Has the server primary IP address (default server IP) Domain B - Has its own IP address Domain C - has its own IP address If an email goes out from Domain B then it uses the Domain A IP address in outgoing and this makes emails from Domain ...

What does the following SPF record allow?

v=spf1 ip4:211.121.22.56 a mx a:server.hostname.com ~all My understanding is it allows the following to send out emails: ip4: 211.121.22.56 a: A record (where website is hosted) mx: whatever the MX record says a: this server name And nothing other than the above 4 places Am I correct? ...

Using Google Apps Standard - Emails being marked as spam

Hey Guys, I signed up with Google apps standard edition for one of my domain names say example.com. I setup the emails like [email protected] - and using the Google Email client and loggin as user contact - if I send emails to users - they arrive in their inbox. But when I send it through my php script running on my hosting account w...

Is there a good API for blacklisted domains?

hi all, just curious if there was a good service paid or unpaid where I can send in either a user's email address or the domain from their email address and get back if they're a known spammer or not? thanks ...

C# change e-mail 'from' address to a user-provided one.

We have an app that allows users to send e-mails from our system. It allows the user to specify their e-mail address, and gives them several standard templates to use as a starting point for their e-mail. When we send the e-mails, we use the address they provided as the 'reply-to', but the 'from' address of the e-mail (naturally) looks...

Best practices: Sending email on behalf of users

The company I work for provides testing services for the healthcare industry. As part of our services, we need to send email to our clients' employees. Typically, these are temp, part-time, or contract employees, and so have private email addresses (eg Hotmail, GMail, Yahoo!, etc). Up to now, we've been sending from an internal addres...

Setting up DomainKeys/DKIM in a PHP-based SMTP client

It looks like there are some great libraries out there to do DomainKeys signing of emails on C#/.NET, but I'm having a really hard time finding the same kind of support for PHP. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place? The only one I found is http://php-dkim.sourceforge.net/; it looks incredibly hacky and supports PHP4 only. Consideri...

Send thousands of emails at a time, pitfalls/best way?

Hi, Im writing a tool c# (and System.Net.Mail) which will be sending around 4000 emails fornigtly. Can i simply loop through a list of 4000 email addresses and send emails one at a time? or will this cause any potential problems? Is there a better way to do this? Thanks ...

What mail storage should I choose for our web application; IMAP, key-valud store, rdbms, ...

I have to store e-mail messages for use with our application. I have "metadata" for all messages inside a relational database, but I don't feel comfortable keeping message content (gigabytes and terabytes of email data) inside a database. I'm currently using IMAP as a storage, but I have my doubts if I choose correctly. First of all ther...

How can I stop cruise control re-building after a failed build?

I got back from the weekend to discover that somebody *ahem* had missed a file commit last thing Friday afternoon... Cruise control has been having fun, and tried to re-build every five minutes since then despite no further commits. This means that my colleagues and I have received approximately six hojillion emails from cruise control....

How to make a spam tester

In my project I need to make a spam tester to check the spam score of the mails prepared to be sent. When I searched, I found Spam Assassin, which they say is used as sapm filters in many mail servers. Can I create a spam tester using Spam Assassin? Another option I found is one Litmus API, which is a paid service. Is there any options o...

How to get a detailed report of scans performed by spam-assassin?

Hi, I am planning to setup spam-assassin in my mail server for filtering out spam mails. I would like to get a detailed report of spam checks performed on incoming mails. This will help me in creating custom rules , so that legitimate mails wont be labeled as spam. Please tell me how to configure spam-assassin so that i get a detailed...

List of bank domains to stop phish

I'm looking for a full list of bank domain names to include in an anti-phish routine I'm planning, does anyone have a list/URL? ...

Using Microformats but protecting your email (with Javascript).

Hey guys, I am using microformats for a project and with this I have the following Problem. I use a Javascript to protect the email addresses, but when saving the microformats as a vCard it puts the javascript code in the email address field. //<![CDATA[ document.write("<n uers="znvygb:vasb100irner56arg">vasb100irner56arg<057n>".replac...

What is the proper way to send large amounts of solicited mail when using Google Apps

We use Google Apps (Gmail) to send and receive all of our email. Our application, which has grown in popularity over the years, sends email to its users per their request. It's not spam, it's important email they ask for. Gmail (rightfully so) restricts the number of emails you can send. We get around this by queuing our mail and sendin...

How to avoid public emails in a site registration?

i want to avoid public email / free emails like (@gmail.com,@yahoo.com.,) in site registration .. ...

Email deliverability - Influencing factors

[Our website] is very dependent on being able to successfully send email to its members. We are currently having trouble reaching all our members, especially hotmail users. What do you recommend we do to improve our sending of email? We are sending heavily user customized emails. So a third party solution would need a good api to sup...

Postini - What happens to email sent to users not set up in postini

I am setting up Postini to help scan my email for spam. You pay by the user. Say I set up three users in Postini (jed, sales, and info). Say I have those three accounts and a forth email account (support) set up on my mail server. What happens if I try to send mail to that account not set up in Postini (support)? 1) I have tried this an...