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My E-card website is sent to junk mail


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I'm making a site in which you can send cute cartoon e-cards. I tested sending a text through my flash and php setup. Hotmail and Yahoo are the only ones to be junking my E-cards while Gmail and a ton of others are accepting them with no problem.

Is there some white list I'm supposed to get on? Or is there simply no way to get through it? I'm hosted by "A Small Orange"

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so how do you exclude yourself from being filtered as junk? i've locked the sending email as ecards@(mysite).com so the person sending the cards only need put their name, not their e-mail.

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so how do you exclude yourself from being filtered as junk? i've locked the sending email as ecards@(mysite).com so the person sending the cards only need put their name, not their e-mail.

That is probably the reason for the emails being considered junk. You are better off setting the sender as the person who is creating the card. While you are at it make sure you have solid measures to stop spam else you will end up in blacklists.

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You are better off setting the sender as the person who is creating the card.

Thus spoofing FROM addresses, which can be spotted a mile off and is considered a reason to mark as spam

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Ok I've figured out what's going on...

The email they enter is basically a mask. The true sender is this IP address --> 64.22.96.60 which is a shared IP that "a small orange" users use.

Is it possible to get hotmail to white list it? Or do you think it's better to post a note on my website that says "check your junk mail folder if you are a hotmail user" and "be sure to mark us as safe"

That's kinda a downer...

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Ah I got my good news! Gmail and several others are letting a "nobody@website.com" through already. Just tested a few websites.

Hotmail seem to be the only one, but after contacting the postmaster I was told that the "nobody" will be allowed by building reputation. Should enough users put it on their "safe list" over the years, it will make it on board.

Now that I think of it, I remember 123greetings used to end up in my junk mail. They even used to have it posted on their page "be sure to check your junk folder" but now it's long gone. They're mainstream.

Ok, so it's rep system, no problem! Hope to get things up and at'em in the future.

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