[Phoenix-pm] sending email with perl

[Brent Roberts]

Thanks to all of you.  This is very helpful!!

-Brent


2011/7/15 Michael and Julie Jones <julemik at yahoo.com>

> **
> Scott's suggestions are good. When I had the same issues, I went to
> http://www.dnsstuff.com and ran a free trial of their "Mail Server Test
> Center". I typed in my MX record, and it ran several checks on my DNS. It
> gave me a thorough analysis of things I needed to do ( including DKIM and
> SPF ) to make mail from my server more friendly to other mail relays.
>
> One of the more simpler kinks that will get mail from your server listed as
> spam almost every time is failing to have a reverse PTR for your DNS MX
> record. In other words, when you do `dig mymailserver.whatever.com`,
> whatever IP address returns would result in the name
> mymailserver.whatever.com when you `dig the.ip.address.returned` ( a
> reverse lookup ).  Mail Server Test Center runs some of these more simpler
> checks too.
>
> Sincerely,
> Michael J. Jones
>
>
> On 7/14/2011 10:14 PM, Scott Wessels wrote:
>
> Hi Brent,
>
> Check out http://www.dkim.org/ and http://www.openspf.org/.
>
> Also, https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=81126 .
>
> SPF requires a TXT DNS entry, and DKIM could be incorporated into your
> Mail::Sendmail routines http://search.cpan.org/search?query=dkim .
>
> Regards,
> Scott Wessels
> USGN/CTO/usgn.net
>
>
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011, Brent Roberts wrote:
>
> Hello all.
>
> A little off topic but I thought I see if anyone has experience with this.
> I work for a start up here in town called Ourbucketlist.com.
>
> We send out emails to users when they sign up for the site  (have been
> using Mail::Sendmail ).  But our emails are often blocked by the spam
> filters of Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and so on.
>
> Does anyone know of some tips to help get around spam filters?  We are not
> spam!!  :)
>
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> -Brent Roberts
>
>
>
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