Hi Stan, You can try to throttle down the email volume you sent out at one time.
http://mysecretbase.com/Slowing_Down_CFMail_2004.cfm With only 1,000 reocords you can break it down to batches of 200 or so and problably be ok. You can also use the Java sleep method to slow it down: http://www.justskins.com/forums/pause-cfmail-104630.html I'm actually in the process of creating a mailout app and I'm going to be using the Java sleep method just becuse it's a fire and forget type process. I don't want to have the user sit and wait on a processing page. There is also an insane way of trottling down by running a scheduled task every three minutes or so: http://mysecretbase.com/coldfusion_mail_trickler.cfm I'll be very interested in how many emails you can send out without triggering the spam bots. -Eddie --- On Mon, 4/6/09, Ken Auenson, II <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ken Auenson, II <[email protected]> Subject: [houcfug] Re: Black Listing and Spam Filters To: [email protected] Date: Monday, April 6, 2009, 11:30 AM Stan, A lot of email servers today check against blacklists to try to limit the amount of incoming spam. When dealing with a shared host, you generally have the same IP address as multiple people on the same server, so it could be that one of them is sending spam, it could be that someone sent spam from this IP address years ago. Another possibility is that people marked your emails as spam instead of using a proper process to stop receiving them. To figure out if your IP address is blacklisted, try this site: http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx If there are any blacklists that contain your IP address, this site will provide a link to that site and you may be able to get your IP address removed from their system. Good luck! -- Ken On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Stan M. <[email protected]> wrote: I have a Coldfusion application that is an email system for about 1,000 addresses. There are probably an average of only 400 emails sent per week. Recently GMAIL, YAHOO MAIL started recognizing the messages sent from this system as spam. In GMAIL and YAHOO I have been able to tell the spam filters to let the mail go through. In other systems this approach may not be working. It is difficult and not practical to get to tell everyone to allow the specific email address. I have been searching on the web and apparently there are tools that black list email addresses or ip addresses. problem. I am not sure what tools there are to help me determine if the system is blacklisted. If so what I do next. I would appreciate any insights that you might have into this. 1. How can I check if I am blacklisted? 2. What can I do to stop being black listed? 3. Since I am on a shared server (hosted by dailyrazor.com) could I be blacklisted because of activity on that server that I am not responsible for? 4. Any other ideas how I could get around this problem? Thanks Stan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Houston ColdFusion Users' Group" discussion list. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit http://groups.google.com/group/houcfug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
