Send Emails in ASP

tdaustin · August 11th, 2004, 08:27 PM

Hi Everyone

As spam has been increasing and increasing so too have spam filters on client emails. I find that website emails are getting blocked more and more. Which is a real problem for password recovery and that sort of thing.

I currently use Persist ASPEmail component for my emailing needs

I was wonder how can i minimise this?

Do you have an example code that can authenticate these emails as close to a real email as possible. Or measure to pass the majority of spam filters criteria?

Thanks in advance

Tim

Here is a typical code i would use

Code:

' send email

BodyText = "Password Recovery" & VbCrLf & VbCrLf
BodyText = BodyText & "Dear " & objRS("ContactName") & ", "& VbCrLf
BodyText = BodyText & "You have requested your Username & Password to be sent to you via email.  Your details are as follows: " & VbCrLf & VbCrLf
BodyText = BodyText & "Username: " & objRS("Username") & VbCrLf
BodyText = BodyText & "Password: " & objRS("Password") & VbCrLf & VbCrLf
BodyText = BodyText & "Regards, "& VbCrLf & "Administration" & VbCrLf

set Mail = Server.CreateObject("Persits.MailSender")

        Mail.Host = Request.ServerVariables("LOCAL_ADDR")
        Mail.From = "[email protected]
        Mail.FromName = "My Company
        Mail.AddAddress objRS("C_Email")
        Mail.AddReplyTo "[email protected]
        Mail.Subject = "Password Recovery"
        Mail.Body = BodyText
        Mail.Send    
        set Mail = Nothing

TDA

Christiaan van Opstal · August 11th, 2004, 08:41 PM

I'm not aware of any changes in your code that would help you defeat spam filters, but one of the most important things you can do is to make sure that the domain you're sending your e-mails from is the same domain as that in the e-mail address your using.

Spam filters tend to be extremely critical of e-mails where the two don't match. If, for example you send e-mail from your server using your yahoo e-mail address, the spam filter will recogonize that the e-mail didn't actually come from yahoo and often toss it into the junkmail category.

There might possibly be some additional code in the header of your e-mails that might make it look more authentic, but it probably won't be much more effective then the code you're currently using.

Chris

Yehuda · August 12th, 2004, 09:02 AM

I send emails all the time from ASP. The key is to keep your emails legit. Don't Spam. Make sure the domain you are sending from matches your sender, that the email is going to people who are expecting such emails and that your subjects and meassages don't include spam words.

tdaustin · August 12th, 2004, 05:13 PM

Thanks everyone,

So would Request.ServerVariables("LOCAL_ADDR") affect the email becuause it would return the mail server ip and not the mail record? would i be better to code it to the mail record of each indivual domain? eg. Mail.Host = "mail.mycompany.com"

I guess at the end of the day we can only provide a service to the client and if they do run heavy spam filters they need to allow the websites they are interested in.

Thanks for your advice

Tim

TDA

bmains · August 12th, 2004, 07:09 PM

Hey,

Keep the message short too, so that you are less likely to have the email bounce.

List of server variables and the values pulled back: http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/demos/servervariables.asp.

Brian