> On Jul 8, 2016, at 8:44 AM, Alastair Houghton <alast...@alastairs-place.net> > wrote: > > It has a very high probability of being marked as spam, whatever headers you > use, because it’ll be delivered direct to the recipient’s mail server
Oh — I hadn’t thought of that. I sent my test email to myself, so of course it connected to my domain host’s SMTP. I just assumed that had come from my email settings. Yeah, this is pretty unlikely to work these days, for the reasons Alastair gave. Any SMTP server but your own ISP’s / domain host’s is going to assume you’re a spam-bot. The answer to “Why is it so hard to send email programmatically?” is basically “Because spammers.” (Also “because SMTP was designed in the 1970s/80s with no security considerations whatsoever, and we’ve never been able to graft proper useable security onto it, for reasons like backward compatibility and bike-shedding lack of consensus. Also, securing decentralized systems is hard.”) —Jens _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
