After comparing our old mail software (Post.Office) and our new mail software (IMail), this header is the only difference. Post.Office mail arrived at AOL fine. Imail does not. So yes, with 99.99% certainty, I have proved this is the problem.
So please, no more telling me what I already know. Tell me please the answer to my question. If you do not know, then no need to reply. _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Edward York - Vice Pres/CTO 724 Hosting - www.724hosting.com Windows NT/2000 Web Hosting, Advanced Linux Web Hosting, Dedicated & Co-location Services e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 7:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] precedence:bulk header >Does anyone know how to remove the precedence:bulk" header from messages >sent with IMail s list server? > >It appears this is why my customers newsletters are not making it to AOL >users mailboxes. What do you mean by "appears"? Does it mean that you saw that header, and said "Aha! That must be it!"? That's not a good enough reason to go through the effort to try to get rid of the header. That header, by the way, is there for a reason. It lets AOL know that the E-mail is bulk E-mail, and that it can prioritize it differently (IE if they are near capacity, they could set that one aside until things slow down). It helps the Internet operate more efficiently. Have you ever seen a "Precedence: bulk" header in spam? Our spamtraps show that only about 2% of all spam contains that header, while a lot of legitimate mail does (it's hard to put a percentage on legitimate mail, as it would depend on the type of mail, but over 30% of our legitimate mail here has the header). If you have tested and found that that header does make a difference, please share your results. A few months back, after all sorts of rumors about what type of clandestine filtering AOL does, we weren't able to get them to drop a single E-mail (not even the most blatant spam, even with the Precedence: bulk header). From what we saw, they must be a lot more concerned about who *you* are, not what you are sending (IE the IP address of your mail server, how much mail it has sent, etc.). -Scott --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
