spam filters

  • Resolved yezzz

    (@yezzz)


    10 years, 3 months ago

    I have noticed various ecards sent are not opened. I suspect that, using other people’s email address, mails can end up in spamfolders or getting red flags.

    I did some tests in hotmail, and I get a red warning if the sender is not on the safe senders list. Looking at the source it says spf=softfail. X-AUTH-Result and X-SID-Result both fail. Not that I know what they mean ??

    Anyway, I decided to test with static sender, expecting some fields to change. I checked the email source on the mailserver and after arriving on a hotmail account, but I don’t see any changes at all. Is that a bug?

    I then tried mailreturnpath and it changes a lot more than expected. Return-path of course, but also reply-to, from (mail not name), and envelope-from in the received field. Is that correct behaviour?

    Using the mailreturnpath does pass the above tests in hotmail, so maybe it’s more spamproof. I consider using it, but the option to set a custom from NAME would be great.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-greet/

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  • Plugin Author tuxlog

    (@tuxlog)

    Hi yezzz,

    hope you are doing well.

    That’s exactly what the mailreturnpath option is for.
    I am not sure if it is good school to allow editing the NAME for mailreturnpath or static sender address, since this should always be authentic and not be overwritten by some spammy name.

    The new option would allow this, so I am hesitating to change this.

    Thread Starter yezzz

    (@yezzz)

    Hi Hans,

    I’m doing great and I hope the same for you. And welcome back ??

    The name option is not to allow users to edit the name, but for the webmaster to set a name that matches the email address of their card mailing service.

    Right now with mailreturnpath the recipient would see the sendername is a friend’s name, with a non-matching email address eg. [email protected] That may not look right or confuse them, or a spam filter.

    Or, the receiver may not see the address (hidden behind a name label), and reply to their friend, not knowing their reply will arrive in my mailbox (or blackhole), not in their friends mailbox.

    Also, it will tie my mailer’s address to various names, including whatever bad names the users decide to use. This may also trigger spamfilters.

    In the end of course it is about making it look right for the user and the spamfilter.

    Plugin Author tuxlog

    (@tuxlog)

    In conjunction with https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2047

    what is your suggestion for the headers?

    I know the current way is not the smoothest one but it seems it works with most servers. In the beginning when I did it more proper I have had tons of support request because security settings stopped wp-greet from sending mail.

    But I am not a mime expert and there maybe another easier way to achieve all of this.

    Thread Starter yezzz

    (@yezzz)

    Wow… that mime stuff is all beyond me, so I cannot suggest anything, and I don’t know the specifics about return-path, reply-to, from, and envelope-from. I was hoping you have that knowledge.

    But I like to test it with my own “FromName”. I did have a look a wpg-func-mail.php and see it there 4 times, sometimes using blogname, sometimes using $sender.

    My php knowledge is not good enough to figure out which line to change to eg. “CUSTOM NAME”;

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