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emails from my forms are treated as spam or junk mail
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:00 am
by olu001
What kind of code do I need to prevent emails from my website going straight into junk mail of hotmail and yahoo, all emails I send from my website go into junk mail. I beleive it is to do with my headers or so, How do I rectify this?
Re: emails from my forms are treated as spam or junk mail
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:05 am
by Chris Corbyn
Re: emails from my forms are treated as spam or junk mail
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:09 am
by Kadanis
@Chris: Shameless plug

, but very true it's a great mailer
It could be a whole list of things really. Not just email headers. How are you currently mailing? PHP Mailer? Swift? mail()?
If possible please post the full headers so people can see them and maybe help out.
Here is a few questions, the answers to which could guide you in the right direction. All these are things I've found help when setting up mail servers.
1. Is the From email address a real email?
2. Is the IP you are sending from Static or Dynamic?
3. Is the Server shared or dedicated?
4. Do you know if you have rDNS set up on the server?
A good way to test is to set up a test server with something like Exim and SA on it, then send the emails there and check their spam ratings. You should then be able to see from the SA logs why the spam score was give to a specific email and fix it accordingly.