Junk E-Mails problem

[master]

Hi,

We want to send an e-mailing to our clients. This is a simple html document
with two images, a centered text with the details of our special offer and
an e-mail of the person whom the clients should contact. This is not a spam
e-mailing, the list of e-mail addresses comes from the registered database
of our clients and we did this many times before. But Microsoft has released
a new update to the Junk E-Mails filter and... we have problem.

The e-mailing in question goes into the Junk E-Mails folder in its current
form. I am trying to modify it and after some modifications (resulting in a
document with a content that is wrong) it would not be treated as a junk,
but I cannot find any rule behind it. Is the Junk E-Mails filter described
anywhere? How to cope with this?

DW

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

For best results, send individual messages to each person on your list, rather than sending bulk mail with Bcc.

Think about it: If the logic behind the junk mail filter were published, wouldn't all the spammers use that information to work around the filter?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[John Blessing]

Hi,

We want to send an e-mailing to our clients. This is a simple html
document
with two images, a centered text with the details of our special offer and
an e-mail of the person whom the clients should contact. This is not a
spam
e-mailing, the list of e-mail addresses comes from the registered database
of our clients and we did this many times before. But Microsoft has
released
a new update to the Junk E-Mails filter and... we have problem.

The e-mailing in question goes into the Junk E-Mails folder in its current
form. I am trying to modify it and after some modifications (resulting in
a
document with a content that is wrong) it would not be treated as a junk,
but I cannot find any rule behind it. Is the Junk E-Mails filter described
anywhere? How to cope with this?

DW

No matter how you send it , if it looks like spam it will get treated like
spam by whatever spam-blocking software is between you and your customers,
not just by the Junk e-mails filter

You could try http://spamcheck.sitesell.com/ which claims to check how
"spammy" your message seems to be, but you have to accept that some of your
messages will be blocked.

--
John Blessing

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[master]

You could try http://spamcheck.sitesell.com/ which claims to check how

"spammy" your message seems to be, but you have to accept that some of your
messages will be blocked.

Thanks for this link.

However, my HTML code got the spam score of just 3.2. According to the
checker, any score below 4.5 means "nice and clean" . I think they did
not update the checker to conform with the newest MS Update ;-))))

DW.

 

[master]

For best results, send individual messages to each person on your list,
rather than sending bulk mail with Bcc.

Frankly speaking, we still have not sent the e-mailing, I was just testing
its code and sending it from my account to my colleague's. No bulk mail was
used at all.

Think about it: If the logic behind the junk mail filter were published,

wouldn't all the spammers use that information to work around the filter?

OK, I agree, but on the other hand... the whole thing starts to be quite
paranoic - the basic tools (e-mail, in this case) stop working in the way
they should do. If I send a private e-mail to a friend, I never know whether
it is going to reach the addressee, because of all the antispam filters on
the way. On the other hand, the real spammers do succeed to reach me very
often... somehow. The world gets completely nuts ))

DW