Hi Is it possible to check if an email-address is existing? I have earlier heard that it was possible through "contacting" the email-host, but it could be "dangerous" because your domain could be banned by the respective email-host an treated as spam. My scenario is that i would like to check customers current email in the db, and u...
How do you prevent emails being gathered from HTML pages by email spiders? Does mailto: linking them increase the likelihood of them being picked up? I think I read somewhere about a built-in Ruby function that confuses email spiders by decimal-encoding the email address - can anyone link me to some documentation or tell me how effective...
Short story I've got a PHP script filtering incoming mail using a .qmail file. The script works perfectly well and logs all activity but, as far as I know, the last .qmail line shouldn't be executed when my script returns a dot-qmail exit code 99 that should stop processing further .qmail lines. Long story: I'm using a Parallels Plesk...
Please tell me what I am doing wrong. I am sending an email using the Zend_Mail class like this: $message = <<<STR You have a new invoice! Sign in to your clientarea to see it. Best regards, Company name STR; $mail = new Zend_Mail(); $mail->setBodyText($message); $mail->setFrom('[email protected]', 'Company.com'); $mail->addTo('cl...
So my wife got hit with some email virus. I'm using the term loosely, knowing that there are many types of "viruses". Anyway, it sent out a few emails to everyone in her contacts list. The email has no subject line, and only contained a link to some "healthworld" website (it looked spammy). I've seen a few of my friends send out emails t...
We have a registration form where people can sign up to take surveys for a small compensation. Recently we found a lot of suspect entries. I tracked down a site in Chinese that I translated via google and it was basically a "how to" to sign up for these sorts of sites. I've been working to track down a way to automatically filter off the...
Our site generates several emails per day, a lot of which can contain awkward links, such as http://company/process/task?id=1234-4123-2352-1234&user=xyz... Consequently I have been sending text only emails, on the suspicion that they will be treated more 'fairly' by email filters along the way. I cannot afford to lose emails to clie...