HTML mail == spam?!

[r4nd0mch4r]

Hey, HI people, I've got a lil problem... 😐
I generate a html based e-mail on my webshop... but the mail either:
- never gets to the recepient becuase its labeled as spam
- its whole html code is displayed becuase its labeled as spam

Actually only hotmail displays the html mail correctly... what must I do with this html e-mail so it wont be labeled as spam?!

[trex005]

are you positive that the HTML displaying is because it is labled spam?

are you including "Content-type: text/html;"
in your headers?

God Bless,
Travis Harris

[r4nd0mch4r]

/ To send HTML mail, you can set the Content-type header. /
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";
$headers .= "To: Order <[e-mail]>\r\n";
$headers .= "Reply To: <[e-mail]>\r\n";
$headers .= "Return-Path: <[e-mail]>\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=windows-1250\r\n";

	$headers = "From: Neo-Serv <[e-mail]>\r\n";

These are the neaders that i'm sending... actually I tried with a non html e-mail with the same headers and its still the same... when I check the details of the e-mail i see this:

X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report
X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - domain.domain.net
X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - domain2.net
X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32054 32054] / [47 12]
X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - domain.domain.net

[daveyboy]

$headers = "From: Neo-Serv <[e-mail]>\r\n";

did u forget the "."?

$headers .= "From...";

[Shawazi]

Hotmail and AOL are tricky for spam. When I'm testing my e-mails on different sites they all go to my hotmail and i need to mark them as not spam in my junk mail folder. This is the server, not your code - at least for the spamming part. The mail lists on my school server all go to my junk mail folder on hotmail also. I don't use HTML e-mails cause not everyone is configured for it.

[weekender]

if the html code is being displayed, i'd guess you are reading the mail in a non-html client. try sending a multipart email, so it has both text and html parts.

one of the easiest ways to get your email through the filters in hotmail is to simply send one recipient per email - ie don't send to 100 people, all BCC'd in - send each email to one recipient. Takes longer to send, but more will be seen

Headers such as this X-AntiAbuse set you are seeing are added by spam blockers. In fact, pretty much all mail headers that start with X are custom headers, added along the way by software and are therefore not in the relevant specification

[Shawazi]

that's how i do my e-mails but it still doesn't work all the time in hotmail. i do a loop down the list of e-mails in the DB and it still doesnt send all the time its like it catches sometimes