Funny enough we just had to fix a few contact forms for some customers. We did a lot of tests and in the end method 1 and method 2 had the same success rate through the spam filters, so we chose method 2 as the Sender header is usually hidden in most mail clients so it makes it less confusing to the end user.
Matias Gertel Freelance Web Development & Coding e: [email protected] m: +64 21 288 8840 p: +64 9 838 3367 On 8/09/2009, at 12:11 PM, Stig Manning wrote: Hi all, The majority of all websites have some kind of contact form. Generally it accepts the user's email address, name and a message. In order to make it easy to respond to these messages you might set email headers like: From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] So then responding to the message is possibly by hitting 'Reply'. There is also another method using email headers like: From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] This also allows you to respond by hitting 'Reply'. Both of these options are not going to be blocked by any SPF policy (see http://www.openspf.org/Introduction). Which of these two options are 'best practice'? Any idea what the benefits of either of these are (other than the way the headers appear in an email client)? There is another options, the cowboy option, setting the 'From' to be the user's email address. This WILL be blocked by their domain's SPF policy, and anyone doing this should fix their mailers... Interested to hear everyone's opinions, Cheers, Stig -- Stig Manning http://www.sdm.co.nz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
