I wanted to start a small campaign of about 400-500 emails and I tested the email with mail-tester.com
The problem is that I've got these 2 errors and nobody on the internet knows an answer for it:
-2.43 RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100 Razor2 gives engine 8 confidence level above 50%
-1.729 RAZOR2_CHECK Listed in Razor2 (http://razor.sf.net/)
This happends for both the domain and subdomain. I tried sending an email with a completely changed text (something about animals I've found on wikipedia) and without signature, I even tried sending an empty email and got the same misterious errors.
I tried sending the exact same mail + signature from another domain and it worked perfectly without any error.
What should I try next, considering the fact that it's impossible to change the domain name?
How popular is SpamAssasin with its Razor 2 or is it maybe irrelevant?
Should I wait or on the contrary send as many emails as possible to detect clean traffic?
Thanks
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I’ve been trying to contact the help desk at https://www.online-convert.com/help about an issue with their MIDI to OGG converter. Their web site doesn’t have a telephone number, e-mail or snail mail address, just an online form to communicate with them.
Unfortunately, that single method of communication is broken. I’ve tried over 10 times to send them a message over a couple of days, but the system fails every single time. All I get is the cryptic error message: “Something went wrong. Please try again later.”
Does anyone know how to contact this organization? I like their converters, as they yield some of the best quality OGG files I've heard, but if I can’t contact them for support, I may have to go elsewhere.
Any ideas on how to contact them would be appreciated!
Problem solved: If cookies for their Website were blocked, the comment submission failed. Sadly, it took much trial & error for me to discover this. Would have been much simpler had their error message described the reason for the failure.
I've got a significantly large mailing list - 50K+ subscribers. To avoid stressing my servers, I would like to avoid sending emails through a components embedded on my website. Sending through here sends the CPU usage through the roof - so I'd like to be able to send emails locally. I can easily send emails through mandrillapp, so sending the emails out is not a problem. However, I've hit a bit of a snag.
Phplist seems to assume it is living on a public site, and inserts tracking info which routes the users to a phplist directory on my site (which obviously) does not exist.
Question 1: First of all, I'd like to avoid embedding this tracking - is this possible? Or else is there someway to include it and avoid the 404 error. Would I have to install phplist anyway on the server?
Question 2: I've already got acymailing to handle unsubscribes, so is it actually possible to keep this in place - just to make sure the acymailing is still my point of reference?
Question 3: How do people handle sending out large mailing lists? I know CampaignMonitor, MailChimp etc, but these get a bit expensive for my situation. I'd like to keep sending "internally" so to speak. Is there an elegant solution which will NOT kill my server but is not too expensive? I know I want to have the cake and eat, but it would be nice to hear what people out there are doing.
TIA
David
I got a request from my client that they want to add stars (★) to their email subject (They send these mails through the application we made as a part of bigger CRM for them).
I tried to send a test mail, and the email title is displayed nicely in my Gmail account, and I must agree with my client that it is eye catching, but what came to my mind is that this may be a spam magnet, so I googled about it but I can't find the actual "don't do this".
Generaly, my oppinion would be not to use it, but now I have to explain to the client why. My best explanation whould be there is a probability your emails will be treated as spam but I don't have the background for this statement.
Do you have any suggestions about what should I do?
The only information I could find is on the SpamAssassin page of how to avoid false positives. The only relevant part I found was this part.
Do not use "cute" spellings, Don't S.P.A.C.E out your words, don't put
str#nge |etters 0r characters into your emails.
SpamAssassin is a very widely used spam filtering tool. However, simply breaking one of the rules (strange characters) alone wouldn't get an email marked as spam. But combined with some other problems could lead to your email being considered spam. That being said, if your email is a completely legitimate business email, it's likely that few other rules are triggered, and using the special characters wouldn't create a huge problem. That being said, you should probably try out a couple test emails on SpamAssassin and a couple other spam filtering tools in order to come to a better conclusion on the emails you plan to send out.
Simply explain to your client as you have explained to SO: you stated that the star made it eye catching: this doesn't directly mean that it will be treated as spam, but you could explain how that concept COULD be considered spam.
If the star is part of their branding, however, this could be quite a nice way in which your client expresses themselves.
Spam emails are becoming more and more like what one would consider 'normal', so I think they have trial it internally, test the concept.
Talk it over with your client - there is going to be no basis in hard fact with things like this, purely social perception.
More and more retailers are using unicode symbols in their subject lines since a few months. Of course it's in order to gain more attention in cluttered inboxes. Until now, there has been absolutely no evidence that such symbols increase the likelihood of failing spam filter tests. However, keep in mind that rare symbols might not render (correctly) across all mail user agents. Especially keep an eye on Android and Blackberry smartphones, but also on Outlook. In addition, due to a Hotmail bug symbols will render much bigger in subect lines and in the email body within the web front end. In fact, they are beeing replaced by images. All in all, the star shouldn't make any problems. At least, if it's encoded correctly in the subject line. So, go for it.
I assure you this is a programming question: someone asked about this same problem before and was told that this is not a programming question, but that is because he did not phrase it as such. Please read my full description.
The Problem: I just graduated from college and want to transfer all my emails in my college account (henceforth "account O" for old) to a regular gmail account (henceforth N). Note that account O is powered by Gmail, and is effectively a gmail account.
Gmail has a suggested means for doing this: POP/IMAP. But, this did not work for me, and it has failed many others (see here); upon trying to sync by IMAP, my account N is bombarded with messages reading "A message in your account was listed with an invalid size. It has been left on the server."
It would seem natural to try to mass-forward all of one's emails. But google does not allow such an action. Other people say to use a filter, because filtered items can be mass-forwarded. But you can't filter by date, and there is no way to get the filter to select everything.
My workaround, and where I need more experience programmer advice: I want to run a program which signs into my account O and finds the first email I ever received. Then, I want to begin a for loop which runs through all of my emails where the body of the loop does the following: a) click the forward button b) type in my account N email address c) hit "next", so that the 2nd email I ever received shows up, and so on.
This would accomplish my task.
Unfortunately, all I have under my belt is a semester of C++, some knowledge of statistical
scripting languages (ie R), and VBA. I don't know how to make code interact with the internet. Could someone tell me a language and how to do this?
Thanks,
Ryan
While you are correct in saying that the approach you want to take to this problem makes it a programming question, Ben makes a valid point that your question probably does not confirm to site guidelines.
To answer your problem, pretty much any language should be able to handle this, as nearly all have libraries for working with SMTP. However, this is most likely overkill and I would not suggest programming your own solution when other alternatives exist.
If you receive that message when trying to import mail (or add an account) in gmail's web interface, you should try to import them using an actual mail client such as Thunderbird, a procedure for which is described here. If you have already tried that but still encounter errors, you can use GMail Loader to read archive emails from a variety of formats and mass forward them to a gmail address.
Yes it is possible to create a filter that selects everything.
Simply put your email in the "to" field.
If you have other accounts forwarding to O, make a filter for them too (or us the "OR" keyword).
I have PEAR Mail and Mail_mime all working very nicely using gmail's SMTP server to send. Thanks to some posts on here that helped me get that far!
But, in some scenarios, I need to send two emails, with different content, and to different recipients one right after the other. This is refusing to work.
I can confirm both the emails I am trying to send are well-formed and valid, as both will send with the other one commented out. But whenever I attempt to send them both, only the first gets through. I have tried putting php to sleep for 10 seconds in between, and I have tried sending the second email in a different script that gets called after the end of the first. Nothing.
I realise this is a pretty obscure problem as I found no other articles mentioning this. I haven't included any code because, as stated, I know the code works fine.
So I am hoping in vein that someone might have a bright idea as to why this might be.
Thanks in advance.
SOLVED: changing
include('Mail.php');
to
require_once('Mail.php');
fixed the problem.