>I'm using the JMail component to generate email from a web page. When it >goes through my Declude empowered server, it gets spam tagged as having poor >headers.
There are quite a few web-based E-mailers that are poorly designed. While companies that develop mail clients that are used for sending/receiving mail feel they need to be experts at SMTP, it seems that most companies writing web components thinks they already are experts at SMTP when they are really clueless. Even the best known web components had serious problems in their earlier releases. >Question is, what constitutes a "good header"? Declude JunkMail can scan the headers looking for headers that are common in spam, but rarely ever found in mail sent from a legitimate mail client. It splits this up into two tests: The BADHEADERS test (for headers that are illegal), and the SPAMHEADERS (for headers that are legal). In your case, the E-mail fails the SPAMHEADERS test. There are a number of possible reasons that this could happen. The most likely culprit is that the E-mail is missing a Message-ID: header. All legitimate mail clients that end users use (Outlook, Eudora, Pegasus, the Bat, etc.) include a Message-ID: header. IMail will even add one if the E-mail doesn't have one. The RFCs require that the Message-ID: header be added, unless the developer knows the consequences of not having one and are willing to accept those consequences (in this case, the E-mail being treated as spam). >What should I be looking for with JMail? Declude JunkMail will generate a code (such as 80201002) that it will put in the headers (if you are using the WARN action), as well as in the log file. You can enter that code in the "BADHEADERS Lookup" tool we have at http://www.declude.com/tools to see what was wrong with the E-mail. >I would just pitch JMail and go with EasyMail except for a licensing issue. I would recommend contacting the makes of JMail and asking them if the problem has been fixed in the latest release. Most of the web-based mailers have these issues fixed in the most recent releases. -Scott --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (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/
