Re: genuine bulk email

2007-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 12, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Robin Becker wrote: At present I have reduced the email to a textual format with an embedded textual link. So the email looks like Your Document, Thank you for your inquiry. below is a link to the brochures as requested, in Adobe Acrobat format. It

Re: genuine bulk email

2007-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Robin Becker wrote: these all sound very reasonable. However, we use the same IP for several virtual hosts ie we have more than one domain name so the reverse DNS is not clear to me. Is the from address inspected for comparison with the RDNS ie if I claim to be

Re: genuine bulk email

2007-10-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Robin Becker wrote: these all sound very reasonable. However, we use the same IP for several virtual hosts ie we have more than one domain name so the reverse DNS is not clear to me. Is the from address inspected for comparison with the RDNS ie

Re: genuine bulk email

2007-10-12 Thread Mel
On Friday 12 October 2007 16:40:10 Robin Becker wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: [snip IP/hostname issues answered sufficiently by others] Automatic mailing is fine. What is important is how the email addresses were acquired. .. this isn't automatic, the sales people manually enter

Re: genuine bulk email

2007-10-12 Thread Robin Becker
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Oct 12, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Robin Becker wrote: At present I have reduced the email to a textual format with an embedded textual link. So the email looks like .. When you personalize that give the date and IP address of the request. Something like ...

genuine bulk email

2007-10-12 Thread Robin Becker
We have a project to make a graphical tool which allows salespersons to send an email with an attached PDF document. We are in testing and although the tool seems to work we have the problem of not looking like spam/phish etc etc. I have tried numerous tricks to avoid being classified as spam,

Re: genuine bulk email

2007-10-12 Thread Robin Becker
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Oct 12, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Robin Becker wrote: these all sound very reasonable. However, we use the same IP for several virtual hosts ie we have more than one domain name so the reverse DNS is not clear to me. Is the from address inspected for comparison with the

Re: genuine bulk email

2007-10-12 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Robin Becker wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: The checking will work fine with virtual domains. What matters is that DNS(rDNS(IP)) = IP = DNS(vhost) I think I've got that right. (It's a bit more complicated to state when MXes and multiple A records for the same name are considered,