eCommerce Tycoon

**Triexa** · 10-04-2007, 04:19 PM

Alright, so I created a test email at hotmail and sent me email from my script. Nothing. It's been about an hour and the mail (tried various times) has not gone through. Not in junk, nowhere!

I sent an email from my GMail account and that went through within the minute. Why/how did my mail just disappear?

**chrishirst** · 10-05-2007, 07:02 AM

Hotmail and AOL block messages that appear to be out & out spam, they don't even make it through the mail gateways never mind to the junk folder.

Your script and mail server will need the appropriate headers in place,
such as;
a properly formatted reply-path.
reverse DNS that resolves to the correct hostname.
sent from a IP that isn't "black-holed"

Have a look at http://postmaster.live.com/ and http://postmaster.live.com/Services....enderSolutions

**Triexa** · 10-05-2007, 08:11 PM

So I changed nothing but made my messag a bit longer. Went through every time.

How absurb. STUPID hotmail!

**chrishirst** · 10-06-2007, 04:11 PM

That will be the image spam filtering then.

One of the recent spammer ploys was to send messages where the text was embedded in an image to get around bayesian and word matching filters, so the message body only contained a limited number of characters/words.

**swiftmed** · 10-07-2007, 12:06 PM

its pretty hard to beat the AOL and Hotmail spam bots that search each email. emails with images attached, that use certain "trigger" words in the subject line, or come from a particular ip range normally automatically gets put into your spam box.