Mark - you're a legend!

Thanks everyone for your input. Tried the spamassasin and I scored 0.3
because of no real name in the from field. 5 points makes your email spam so
that wasn't the problem.

But implementing what mark suggested below fixed the problem. And for the
record so did changing the hotmail filter level to low but I had to use
default as this is testing for an 'average user'.

So all good, hotmail is happy, users are happy, I'm happy :)

Cheers,

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Stanton
Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 4:38 PM
To: CFAussie Mailing List
Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Hotmail Junkmail filter


What version of CF are you running? I think 6.1 fixed some issues but in
general CFMAIL doesn't behave very well according to the email specs. Spam
filters pick up on this and treat its mail as spam.

We've had similar issues with SpamAssassin, but fortunately it tells you
what is wrong with each email.

Here are somethings we found that helped:

<cfmail 
        from='"#mailoutSender#" <#mailoutSenderEmail#>' 
        to="#memberEmail#" 
        subject="#mailoutSubject#" 
        type="HTML">
        <cfmailparam name="Message-Id"
value="<#createUUID()[EMAIL PROTECTED]>">
        <cfmailparam name="MIME-Version" value="1.0">
        <cfmailparam name="Reply-To"
value="#get_mailout.mailoutSenderEmail#">

The extra stuff in the from= attribute covers SpamAssassin catching you out
on the email coming from an email address only - not a real name and an
email.

The cfmailparam thingos are required mail headers that cfmail doesn't
include by default.

Have a look at these pages to find out more about these headers:

Message-Id & Reply-To - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html - section 3.6
Mime-Version - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2045.html section 4.

Also have a look at http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_2_6x.html

-- 
Mark Stanton 
Gruden Pty Ltd 
http://www.gruden.com

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