having valid SPF records or domain keys will often make up for the points you have picked up by having an HTML email.
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Wil Genovese <[email protected]> wrote: > > Brian, > > If you are sending ONLY text then change the type attribute in the CFMAIL > tag from html to text or set it to text explicitly. I think at this point > using the CFMAILPART type text then become redundant. CFMAILPART is great > for sending multi-part emails, but you are sending a single part email at > the moment. > > As for the issue of increased SPAM scores when HTML is included, one of the > reasons this may happen is that SPAM filters will compare the text portion > to the HTML portion (By stripping HTML I presume) and see if they are > significantly different. This is where my textMessage() function comes in > handy. It generates the text portion from the HTML portion in what seems to > be the same fashion that SPAM filters check to see if the two sections > match. Thus a low SPAM score. The reason SPAM filters do this check is > because a lot of SPAM is multi-part. The HTML making use of images to show > the real message, while the text portion is some auto-generated text that > seems plausible for a non-SPAM email. This was done by spammers to try to > get past the text analysis of emails. So now SPAM filters compare the two > parts. > > Also, the simpler the html the better. Less images (or none) makes many > SPAM filters happy. > > What SPAM scores were you seeing in the multi-part messages? > > > Wil Genovese > Sr. Web Application Developer/ > Systems Administrator > > Wil Genovese Consulting > [email protected] > www.trunkful.com > > On Jan 26, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Brian Cain wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the info Wil. I did read your blog, and my original design > was coded exactly the way you specified using 2 mail parts (text and HTML) > and specifying the type as HTML in the cfmail tag itself as seen below. > > > > > > <cfmail to="#Candidates.EmailAddress#" from="#SysSettings.Postmaster#" > > subject="#Expired#" > > server="#SysSettings.MailServer#"> > > <CFMAILPART type="text"> > > Your Login ID: #Candidates.EmailAddress# > > #Candidates.CandidateID# > > > > #ExpiredContent.Text# > > </CFMAILPART> > > > > <CFMAILPART type="HTML"> > > #ExpiredContent.HTML# > > <p>Your Login ID is #Candidates.EmailAddress#</p> > > </CFMAILPART> > > </cfmail> > > > > I was noticing that the HTML part of the message was raising my SPAM > score. Many of the messages we send are purely informational and do not > require the niceties of HTML display formatting so in an effort to reduce > the SPAM score I simply removed the HTML part of the cfmailpart tag, leaving > the text cfmailpart in place. This is when my problem started. It appears > as though including a cfmailpart of type text without an HTML counterpart > was causing the problem. I am sad to say that the only fix I could find was > to do something close to your example of the improper use of the cfmail tag. > If I simply include the mail message with no cfmailpart tags and do not > specify type="HTML" in the cfmail tag my message is displayed correctly, or > at least as I intended it to. > > > > I do like your use of the textMessage function. I may incorporate > something like that in my system. I will definitely help cut down on > redundant coding. > > > > Thanks, > > Brian Cain > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341473 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
