Hi i am working on an email system which is used to send email when user is registered on the site. The email when sent in plain text format is delivered correctly but it fails to get delivered even when everything goes ok with the script when sent in html format. It doesn't even work when I use aol or gmail smtp server for sending it. Does my webserver bans email from sending in html format or there's any other problem?
Not so much the server, but probably the email client.
Depending on the sort of formatting you used in the html, it's far more likely for the email to be rejected by either the email reader, or some spam filter along the way.
First try sending the email including both parts - the text part and the html part, but keep the formatting in the html part to a bare minimum. (ie start with no formatting.) Then slowly increase the formatting to see when it stops. Links for example should be completely "straight" - show the user everything in the link - the text should match the href. Buttons are not allowed.
No mater what you do, html emails will always have a higher filter rate than text ones, so carefully consider the use of html in the first place. It doesn't matter how pretty the email is if it doesn't get delivered.
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so I used the cfmail tag to send the information from a form to specific emails, and the tag works perfectly for my personal email at outlook.com and etc. But when I have it set to the email that I use for that domain and that site. It doesn't ever get sent, and there's no issues that I see, and I'm not necessarily sure if that's a hosing issue, or how to even take care of that.
Any suggestions?
Not sure if this is in the right place, but it's all stemming from a PHP email send script that isn't working.
I have an email server for my clients that exists at email.thoughtspacedesigns.com. I run multiple domains from this server (e.g. pittsburghphotography.co). I've set up SPF and DKIM for these external domains, and plain text messages are going through just fine, but anything that contains an HTML attachment (even if it's accompanied by plain text) is going directly to spam when sent to any gmail account. So for example, if I send an HTML email from contact#pittsburghphotography.co, regardless of the client I use (Mac Mail, WordPress, pure PHP script), it goes into spam. I'm not sure what I can do to circumvent this issue as I've already set up just about all of the verification factors I thought were possible. Any insight?
Emails can get sent to the spam folder for a variety of reasons. Here are some things you might look into:
Every email server has a numbered rating and that can effect how your email is delivered. Check that at senderscore.org.
Another thing you might look into is if your email server is on any "Black lists" meaning that you tanked your senders score and got put on a list as a know spammer. Don't feel bad if you are, it's easy to wind up on one. Check for that at blacklistmonitoring.com.
Also, a simple way to check for spam keywords is isnotspam.com. There are other spam checkers out there but that's the one I like.
EDIT: I also forgot to mention gmail can be a bit more fickle than other email clients when it comes to spam. It's just something in their spam filtering algorithm that is more sensitive than other applications.
Best of luck!
I am sending email using cakephps email function. The email sends correctly but it is going to the spam folder.
Can anyone sugggest?
There can be many causes:
The email's content looks like spam (lots of links within a little amount of text, too much alpha-numeric gibberish, certain common spam words)
The server from which you're sending the emails has been black-listed
The email is not properly formatted (so in your case, check that you're using CakePHP's email function fully correctly)
I would try to send a good length, regular email without any links, as if you were writing to a friend, and see if it's a content issue. If the server you're emailing from has been identified as a source of spam and is black-listed by an ISP, there's not a whole lot you can change about that.
It can happen due to your mail content.
Check your mail contents that contain somethings that spam filter count.
I need to be able to display ads on email forwarded through a server (preferably postfix) based on the demographic information of the recipient. Basically a message will arrive for someuser#fakedomain.com and be forwarded to realuser#theirdomain.com with a small advertisement at the bottom.
I would like to use postfix because it appears to be able to use mysql data for various tasks, which would be beneficial so that the system could be controlled by a web app that feeds the database.
I'd prefer to use OpenX for the ad server due to targetting channels (used to select ads based on demographic information), the ability to do text ads as well as email zones, and the ability to run it locally. Other ad servers that are better suited to this problem are acceptable, of course.
The core of the problem, as I see it, is being able to write something at the bottom of any given email message. Of course html messages make this even trickier, but I'd settle for having a solution that works for plain text and work up from there.
Commercial software is an option as well, but a few days of intermittent searching hasn't turned anything up.
Simply writing something to the bottom of the email message will fail miserably in a LOT of cases, particularly with HTML email encapsulated in a MIME multipart message (or anything else in a MIME multipart message) because anything after the last MIME section marker is explicitly supposed to be ignored by any MIME parser. If you want your app to work it needs to
determine if the target message is a MIME message other than TEXT/PLAIN
If it is not, append your text only ad at the end and you're done
if it is, determine if its multipart
if not, then you need to determine the content type of the whole message
If the content type is HTML then you can attempt to insert your ad HTML somewhere appropriate. This will be very hit or miss since you have no idea what the HTML layout will be like.
if the content type is anything OTHER than HTML (or maybe RTF), you're best off not touching the message.
If the message is multipart, determine the subtype
if its 'mixed', then you need to determine which part if any is the primary readable content, and then modify that portion as if it were the whole message based on the above rules
If its 'alternative' then you need to find ALL the readable portions and modify each of them in turn according to the above rules
Finally, and most importantly
Be prepared for the massive ill will you will receive from everyone who gets mail routed through your server.
Let me see... People sign up for your service, which I assume is free. They provide you their real email address and in return you provide them a different email address which they can use to e.g. subscribe to mailinglists and for other services. And maybe some spamfilter functionality? That sounds like a legit service to me, especially if you only provide the ads to the person who subscribed. I do wonder if you'd get many subscriptions, though, since many people can just as easy use a Google, Yahoo or Hotmail account for these purposes. So, what is the added value those subscribers will get?
Anyway, you would need to modify existing emails, which is a bit complex when they are HTML mails or if they're digitally signed. (Especially in the latter case, you would actually block the recipient from receiving those emails, since their email system would detect that the email has been tampered with. You might also be at risk of possible legal problems, although I don't think there's anything illegal as long as the recipient agrees with the terms of your service.
Is it possible to detect the email client in an html message? Specifically outlook 2007
Update
My users have access to an online system that really has nothing to do with email, but in this system they can all communicate with themselves.
My app - takes messages from this system, and then sends it via an email instead.
Now I need a reply to function. Obviously its not a normal email address so...
I want a way to intercept this message, and send it via another channel.
I could write the outlook plug to check EVERY SINGLE out going email address, but this surely can't be the way we're expected to work with email.
It would be much easier to have a button in the email itself which can call an outlook function (custom) and then pass control to this function.
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Thanks guys for your answer, but there is a little more complexity. The online system contains fields, these fields need to be completed by the user before sending the reply. So I need some kind of form (yes with working check boxes, etc in there). This should all be in the email message.
Essentially what you'll need to do is set up an automated process that monitors a particular email address, and set that address as the reply-to in your outgoing email. When a message comes in, you can do whatever analysis you need to (examining the from, subject, etc.) and process the content however you see fit.
"Detect" using what? Javascript does not work in email. CSS stylesheets don't either - so no CSS hacks.
Have you tried to change the Reply-To header in the email to the direction that you want?
You have an example in C# & VB in: http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/2.7.aspx