Re: [twsocket] Simple SMTP text emails rejected for virus or spam

2009-07-16 Thread Francois Piette
of MidWare (Multi-tier framework, freeware) http://www.overbyte.be - Original Message - From: Hoby Smith h...@romans618.org To: 'ICS support mailing' twsocket@elists.org Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 10:47 PM Subject: Re: [twsocket] Simple SMTP text emails rejected for virus or spam Well

Re: [twsocket] Simple SMTP text emails rejected for virus or spam

2009-07-15 Thread Arno Garrels
It's possible that their filter recognize the X-Mailer header, try to remove or overwrite it in OnHeaderLine event. Also if the mail used multiple parts the MIME boundaries could be recognized as well. Many spammers use ICS. Regarding the hard coded boundary strings I suggest to make them (or

Re: [twsocket] Simple SMTP text emails rejected for virus or spam

2009-07-15 Thread Francois Piette
It is likely that - despite what they say - your IP or hostname is blacklisted. You should try to send the email, with the exact same program, from another computer (or even several computers) using another ISP. If the problem happend from anywhere, then it is a problem of the mail itself. For

Re: [twsocket] Simple SMTP text emails rejected for virus or spam

2009-07-15 Thread Francois Piette
Regarding the hard coded boundary strings I suggest to make them (or parts) component properties. Would be a good idea to create a property XMailer with that string. The default value would be the current value. Some trick should be used so that the correct component version is used even if the

Re: [twsocket] Simple SMTP text emails rejected for virus or spam

2009-07-15 Thread Arno Garrels
Francois Piette wrote: Regarding the hard coded boundary strings I suggest to make them (or parts) component properties. Would be a good idea to create a property XMailer with that string. The default value would be the current value. Some trick should be used so that the correct component

Re: [twsocket] Simple SMTP text emails rejected for virus or spam

2009-07-15 Thread Hoby Smith
Francois said... 1- You should try to send the email, with the exact same program, from another computer (or even several computers) using another ISP 2- It is likely that - despite what they say - your IP or hostname is blacklisted. Thanks for the input Francois. I have indeed tested by

Re: [twsocket] Simple SMTP text emails rejected for virus or spam

2009-07-15 Thread Hoby Smith
Well, I finally resolved this issue. What a pain. In the end, the problem was just character data that GoDaddy didn't like. It would have been nice if their SMTP response had said something like, Invalid character data detected, instead of, Rejected due to spam or virus content. But, maybe I