GordonH
02-13-05, 05:33 AM
Hello
When a customer signs up we have always sent them an email with their username and password and other instructions.
However, more and more these are getting blocked by spam filters because of the content.
This is a particular problem with our domain registration service because the words "domain name" seem to be targetted by spam filters.
So... I decided to think like a spammer.
We now send out some emails which are about d0ma1n names.
This is not very professional looking but it has helped a bit.
It also does not help with things like http://127.0.0.1/~username/ type URL's which seem to trigger spam filters.
So I have gone one step further and the customer now gets two emails.
The first is the standard welcome email like we have always sent.
The second contains one URL which they can click on to see a web page
with a copy of the welcome email, populated with all the correct information.
I really think this is the way forward, as the spam filters I have tried it with have tested it as totally clean.
Not being a programmer I just did it using paramaters passed in a URL.
The trick has been to keep the URL short to prevent it wrapping in an email program.
So far its Ok as long as thee is not a really long domain name.
Will be interesting to see if this helps, because about 25% of customers do not receive the domain reg emails at the moment.
When a customer signs up we have always sent them an email with their username and password and other instructions.
However, more and more these are getting blocked by spam filters because of the content.
This is a particular problem with our domain registration service because the words "domain name" seem to be targetted by spam filters.
So... I decided to think like a spammer.
We now send out some emails which are about d0ma1n names.
This is not very professional looking but it has helped a bit.
It also does not help with things like http://127.0.0.1/~username/ type URL's which seem to trigger spam filters.
So I have gone one step further and the customer now gets two emails.
The first is the standard welcome email like we have always sent.
The second contains one URL which they can click on to see a web page
with a copy of the welcome email, populated with all the correct information.
I really think this is the way forward, as the spam filters I have tried it with have tested it as totally clean.
Not being a programmer I just did it using paramaters passed in a URL.
The trick has been to keep the URL short to prevent it wrapping in an email program.
So far its Ok as long as thee is not a really long domain name.
Will be interesting to see if this helps, because about 25% of customers do not receive the domain reg emails at the moment.