On Sunday 23 May 2004 09:43 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote:
I'm looking into a problem my high school reunion chair is having. Apparently most of his e-mails to the class are not making it to classmates with known active e-addresses. Since the e-mail has ~200 names on the "To:" list, I suspect it's being picked up as spam by some ISP bent on blocking our class reunion.
Does anyone know if my hypothesis is reasonable and how one might get around such a filter (other than by sending 200 e-mails)?
Possible it is not making it off of the original mail server. Postfix has rules that can be implemented that limit the number of recipients. I am fairly certain that other MTA's do as well.
There are a number of email packages that allow you to create distribution lists, each email would go out to a single address, but everyone on the distribution list would get a copy. He might want to look into getting such a package.
However, he/she should probably insure that the mail is 100% opt-in/solicited, regardless of what the subject might be. If the recipients did not actively solicit the contact, high school reunion or not, the mail would be considered spam and the originating account will probably be forfeit.
I don't think spam filters take this into account (in fact I don't see how they could). Since our mail server has started using spamassassin, I've had to put in procmail recipes to stop a large number of mail services I've opted into from being tagged as spam.
Sir Robin
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