Stopping my newsletters going into the junk box

[vertmonkee]

I wrote a pretty simple script to post a newsletter to all my users.

It works and gets sent to people but it seems to end up in their junk emial boxes.

Is there a way that I can stop this happening?

Has anyone else come up against this problem and found a solution?

Thanks for any hints or suggestions on this.

[halojoy]

it depends on what junk filter users commonly use
There is probably some default definitions, what is 'junk'.

It is some words that is in email.
You should avoid all such words in your newsletter.

One way to test this, would be to try with your own email-accounts.
1. Set your inbox junk filter to a bit tighter level.
2. Edit and send your 'test'-newsletter to yourself, until it will turn up in your inbox.

🙂

[TheDefender]

Though there is no way to absolutely "prevent" your newsletter from going into junk email boxes, there are a few things you can do to minimize it.

1) Advise your users to put your sending email address in their contacts list.
2) Read up on RFC 2822 (and other applicable RFCs outlined within it) pertaining to email formatting.

One of the things SPAMers do is manipulate the header of their email to try to "trick" SPAM and junk mail filters, so if the header in your outgoing email is malformed in any way (whether malicious or not), this could trigger filters. Make sure all of the proper headers are sent, including the MIME type, the FROM:, the Reply-To:, the Content-Type:, etc...

There's a lot of reading in the RFC, so you may also want to look at the PHP Manual's [man]mail[/man] function entry, including user comments (which helps a lot too). Then find yourself a guinnae pig (or even yourself as halojoy suggested).

[vertmonkee]

Thanks guys,

I'll get reading and do some tests to see how it goes.

If I find anymore useful info I'll post it up.

Cheers