I am using PHPMailer to send a confirmation email for newly registered users in my social network. But I found out most of them have ended up in user's spam list. (Hotmail and Yahoo). How to avoid this? This is my script $mail=new PHPMailer(); $mail->IsSMTP(); $mail->SMTPAuth = mSMTPAuth(); $mail->SMTPSecure = mSMTPSecure(); $mail->...
Hi, I'm wondering what mail servers I should use for sending mail through my website, avoiding them sent as spam. Hostgator SMTP google hosted SMTP I found that to avoid a mail sent as spam it should have the same host in "From:" and "Received". How to overcome this? Thanks ...
I'm developing a social network in php. There is a feature to create custom groups by members and i want to enable the owner of the group to send emails in bulk to all group members. And most importantly i want to make sure that most mails are not going to end up in users' SPAM list. I'm using PHPMailer in my website What should be ...
How to distinguish robots from normal user? How does SO do this job? Currently I'm met with a robot which post once every 1 hour... ...
A few days ago I upgraded Php Mailer and now some email providers my messages mark as spam. This is what I see in the headers of the marked messages: X-SpamTest-Info: {TO: header missing} This is from my php file. $mail->From = $sender; $mail->FromName = $sender_name; $mail->Subject = $subject; $mail->Body = $body; ...
Our company does work environment surveys, and these surveys are filled in online. All participants are sent a link to their survey in an email (personal code included). Some of our clients have employee counts in the hundreds and sometimes in the thousands. Our current solution is just using our SMTP-server to send this, without any f...
Everyone (besides me) who comments on another persons blog gets marked as spam when they comment on other peoples blogs. When they comment on their own its fine. Might be related, I've installed reCaptcha and have disabled it for logged in users yet everyone who is logged in still sees it, I don't, and incidentally my comments don't get...
Just recently I dove into the VideoLAN open source project. This was my first time using git, and when sending in my first patch (using git send-email --to [email protected] patches), I was sent the following message from my computer's local mail in the terminal (I'm on OSX 10.6 by the way): Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail fo...
Hi, I'm trying to create a PHP based game where you have to do all sorts of simple but un-obvious tasks in order to progress to the next level (eg. refresh browser, press keyboard combination, ...) Kinda like the game "this is the only level" (if anyone has ever heard of it) Now I was thinking: Would it be possible to create a level wh...
Good Days, I have recently developed a web application in ASP.NET for a marketer that he has been sending emails to his potential customers to fill out a web form existing in this ASP.NET application. Recently, he received an email from his hosting company saying that they will suspend his account because his emails were triggered by S...
Hello, I'm doing a university project, that must gather and combine data on a user provided topic. The problem I've encountered is that Google search results for many terms are polluted with low quality autogenerated pages and if I use them, I can end up with wrong facts. How is it possible to estimate the quality/trustworthiness of a pa...
I have put a form on a web page where the user can send us data. Unfortunately, the webmaster does get a lot of spam through this form and the valid submissions gets buried. I have used captcha to bypass this problem. But I think that everyone would agree that captcha is a big annoyance to users. I switched to another solution: now the...
Has anyone successfully setup "Domain Keys Identified Mail" in a CakePHP app with the built-in email component? I'm trying to implement part two of Jeff Atwood's spam protection post: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/04/so-youd-like-to-send-some-email-through-code.html I'm not finding any good tutorials or sample code online for...
Hi, I am setting up a test site which I WANT to get spammed by WIKI spammers, ie those spambots that run rampant on a wiki site filling it up with junk data... How do i get on one of those lists? ...
Spammers aren't being stopped by my CAPTCHA. What else can I use? ...
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...
I have a site where a user submits a message using AJAX to a file called like.php. In this file the users message is submitted to a database and it then sends a link back to the user. In my Javascript code I disabled the text box the user types into when they submit the AJAX request. The only problem is, a malicious user can just consta...
What is the most secure way to fight spam?Any algorithm?Or way to fight back spammers? ...
Hi everyone, In django I made a simple ajax handler that will validate a POST request and on success write to a database -- which will later be available to be seen publicly. Anonymous in this case is allowed. Much like StackOverFlow will accept questions posted by logged in and non logged in user, we'd have similar acceptance. How d...
I am working on an email program and I want to add a basic way to detect spam based on the domain/sender of the mail. One service that I was looking at was gossip (http://gossip-project.sourceforge.net/) but I don't want to go to the hassle of setting up a dedicated Gossip server. I know that there are a lot of email blacklists (DNSBL's)...