On 31/03/12 10:39, Herman H Dalman wrote:
May be this can help: Do not send HTML; send plain text (Content-type: text/plain) instead. Sending HTML decreases the number of people who will read your email and is the single most common cause of mail being rejected by the apache.org inbound spam filtering. If your mail bounced and the error message said the spam hits include HTML_MESSAGE, re-send the message as plain text.
Poor advice perhaps. Not that I disapprove of the principle. I'm afraid a whole lot of people - and exactly the ones who need help - won't have a clue what "html" or "Content-type: text/plain" might be, much less how to send simple plain text (and again, I had a very bemused look from a Word user once when I asked for a "plain text file"; he hadn't a clue, and it wasn't entirely his fault -- IMO user interfaces are so dumbed down, people don't know what happens 'under the hood'. Maybe they shouldn't need to; I'm not sure).
BTW I did notice the OP's list email did /not/ have the usual 'how to unsubscribe' rubrick.
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