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ayoksus
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What's wrong with hotmail??

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Hi.. another question from a newbie..
I have a newsletter, and I tested to send emails to my accounts in yahoo, gmail, hotmail, and my own server. The emails were sent successfuly, except... HOTMAIL..

When I just sent emails with text format, my hotmail account received it in the bulk/junk mails folder. After I changed the email format to html, it didn't receive it at all... How can I send php emails to hotmail?

thx...
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Hotmail are incredibly strict about what they think is spam*, what they think is junk*, and what they think is proper email. If your newsletter isn't absolutely perfectly formatted then it won't get through. Using SwiftMailer rather than mail() will help a bit.

I have to admit that I rather suspect they do this because they offer a service to email marketing companies to whitelist all their email. It costs thousands of dollars to get on it.

* Spam is what they just bin completely and never show the user, junk is stuff that's probably spam but they put into the junk folder just in case.
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onion2k wrote:Hotmail are incredibly strict about what they think is spam*, what they think is junk*, and what they think is proper email. If your newsletter isn't absolutely perfectly formatted then it won't get through. Using SwiftMailer rather than mail() will help a bit.

I have to admit that I rather suspect they do this because they offer a service to email marketing companies to whitelist all their email. It costs thousands of dollars to get on it.

* Spam is what they just bin completely and never show the user, junk is stuff that's probably spam but they put into the junk folder just in case.
There are a couple of companies that do that. It's rather annoying >.<
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