I wrote PHP script that validates email with smtp check and mx record check.
its able to give weither email is valid or not but
i want to add functionality of explaining bounce rate of email.
I see similar platform like neverbounce doing this.
Do i need any kind of AW service? or any kind of special hosting to check bulk emails are spam/bounce or not.
Please Advice
Thanks.
Bounces are not about content, but about quality of subscriptions in yours list. Services like mailcheck.co, neverbounce etc will help to avoid non existing mails, hard bounces.
For validating email content and MTA settings you may try mail-tester.com
It will suggest to change email content if it looks suspicious, and will ask for proper mail transfer agent settings, like DKIM, SPF etc.
But in common - it's two different tasks. First one validates your email list, second one validates sender and email.
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I can not solve the problem of spam. I only have 7.6 / 10 on Mail-Tester.com.
I specify that I use postfix, and I need it only for the sendings.
Here is my result: https://www.mail-tester.com/web-n0z33
Mail-Tester.com tells me that the problem come from ReplyTO… But I am obliged well to use ReplyTO so that I can click "to answer" when I receives an e-mail sent since a form of contact of my Web site.
I also specify that FROM I put an email address #my-domain.fr. Because if in FROM I directly put the email address of the visitor who fills my contact form I have even worse errors with Mail-Tester.com.
And here is my PHP code:
$mailer = new Mailer();
$mailer->setFrom(contact#mondomaine.fr)
->setReplyTo('emailexemple#gmail.com')
->setTo($_GET['mail'])
->setSubject($data['subject'])
->setBody('front/specific-page/contact/contact-html', $data)
->addBodyText('front/specific-page/contact/contact-text', $data);
var_dump($mailer->send());
I use SwiftMailer with the driver at 'mail', but I created my own adapter so that's why I have this code. But it is easy to understand.
How to solve my problem? How to have a 10/10 rating with Mail-Tester.com?
Thank you very much.
I am sitting with the same problem. Currently, from what I have found on the net, you can not "fix" this. However, there are some ways to help resolve it. Here are a few options you can try, based on these references:
Ref 1
Ref 2
They both say the following:
"Wrap mail messages in HTML tags to avoid spam filters."
The FROM address must be those from the visitor who uses the contact form. How would you else respond to the email? And why even use a tool to test the spam score of an email sent with a contact form? You are the only receiver of those emails.
The 10/10 rating with Mail-Tester.com is telling you only, that Mail-Tester thinks, that your email is just fine. I would not rely too much on this tool. All email service providers have anyway own spam filters and will handle your email as they see right. For instance, if you test your email with another tool like https://www.emailchecky.com, you will mostly see other results and found errors.
Or make another test:
You can send the email also to a Gmail address and see if the email is landing in the main inbox or the spam folder instead. Gmail has the most aggressive spam filters and rules I know. If your email will pass these rules and filters you can be proud of your email.
I'm using Mandrill to send E-Mails in my PHP Project and integrated it via the API. So far so good E-Mails go out and arrive their recipient, but something bothers me about the missing SPF and DKIM entries.
When the E-Mails are opened in outlook the "on behalf of" issue occurs (FAQ from mandrills KB). But I can't fix this, since too many of our customers do not have the necessary skills/ access-rights to create a SPF entry for their domain, so we learned to live with that.
We verified our own domain at mandrill to use it as custom sending-domain to get rid of the
from: reallyLongString#mandrillapp.com on behalf of customerName#customerDomain.com
and exchange it with
from: mailbot#ourDomain.com on behalf of customerName#customerDomain.com
but somehow I can't get this to work!
I cannot find an option to set "mailbot" as sender. Even worse, Mandrill makes up a phantasy e-mail-address consisting of customerName#ourDomain.com. If some customer gets the idea to send to this address we've got a disaster upcoming. Also the API does not specify anything like that in the "Messages"-Section.
How can I configure mandrill to send E-Mails with a from-field appearing in outlook like this:
mailbot#ourDomain.com on behalf of customerName#customerDomain.com
? Really cannot find anything in the docs or the web. Thanks in advance!
As Sanuel Jackson already indicated, there is no way to do this WITHOUT doing the whole certification process of creating a SPF entry.
Also confirmed by Mandrill support (which was quite fast AND competent in responding)
I'm now sending with a proper reply-to address and hope, that our customer's customers ignore the funky e-mail adresses... In case they do mind them, our customers are free to engage us regarding a SPF-entry ;-)
I'm using Postmark to send emails. I want to be able to use if for a send to a friend form so I need the from email address to appear to be from a specific sender. It looks like Postmark only allows you to send from the address specified in the signature. Is that correct?
Alex here from the Postmark team. We can enable dynamic sender signatures in your account for approved usage. Drop our support staff a note, support#postmarkapp.com, and we can enable that feature for you.
The reason for this restriction is to help reduce the likelihood of spam complaints, part of our system that we carefully manage to keep deliverability high for everyone. In your particular use case, depending on how you design your feature, it is possible that someone could start using your form to send spam.
Additionally, by not having a specific sender signature, your emails fall back to our email signing instead of your own - this may impact your delivery rates. For optimal delivery, we recommend having the "from" be a real email address that the account owner can access, and use your users' name as the "name" attribute and their email in the reply-to.
That's not always possible, though, so we can manually enable the dynamic from address feature on request. Just know that delivery rates may be impacted and if the form begins generating significant spam complaints, we may contact you to request that you make changes to your system.
this was ask over and over and still no good solution!
When someone sends an email using php and placing another domain in "from" it will end up in spam.
Solutions normally are:
- Use your "from" and place the domain you want in the "reply-to";
- Have your domain whitelisted by main mail services.
The 1st its not really a solution and I was never able to make 2nd, because its impossible to reach hotmail.com, yahoo.com, etc..
I see lots of sites today having the option to email article to someone from the user email. How can I achieve this?
Thx,
Telmo Cardoso
When someone sends an email using php
and placing another domain in "from"
it will end up in spam.
This is not neccessarily true.
Check which mail servers identify your message as spam. Also check with your hosting company for their preferred method to send out mail.
Try to be straightforward with your message. Offer the users a short textarea (with your default masage), which they can change and customize. Also give the possibility to enter real name of the participants with their e-mail addresses.
Just be senible and your messas will go thru.
Send the email from your webserver and add a reply-to header like you have mentioned.
Make sure you have SPF setup for your server to help get yourself into the gMail, Live Mail and Yahoo accounts.
A nice and cheap alternative is to send your emails via Amazon SES to avoid having to warm your own IPs etc.
I would go with the Amazon SES (or a similar service) and leave the worrying about getting the server setup right to the experts. Make ensuring deliverability someone elses problem.
This article is a nice starting point:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/04/so-youd-like-to-send-some-email-through-code.html
The problem is related to the header of the email. not neccessarily the 'from' address domain. Some spam filters (i.e. cox.net incoming spam filters) will perform a reverse lookup on the IP address that the email came from. If the domain name returned on the reverse lookup is not the domain name of the sending address. Then they will liekly mark it as spam.
is there any way to check if an email is active without sending it an email? (meaning that it does not get returned)
if i have 20,000 emails in my email list, and i do decide to send all of them an email, how can automatically cross out the email address that got returned?
Sending an email and requesting the user click some sort of activation link is the best way to determine if the email address is valid, and being used by someone. If you just want to see if the email is valid whether or not its registerd or active, use a Regex.
As for crossing them out, where are the emails stored? If its in a database, just set an activation key and a flag saying whether the link has been visited or not.
No.
Depends on how you are sending them. (Please provide more details)
There used to be a way to query a mail server if an email address is valid. However, since spammers used that facility for ill purposes, almost no mail servers will support that method anymore.
All you can hope to do is a DNS lookup on the email domain to see if the domain is valid.
These days, you can't know if the email address is valid. The domain is about as far as you'll get and you can do a reverse lookup on that to see if that is valid. But it won't tell you about the user.
What you need is something to process the bounces from your mail out and write some sort of script to perhaps update the list. There are many tools under Linux for this type of purpose such as procmail. Theres a port of that for windows I think.
No
You need mailing list management software. Lyris Listmanager is a paid one that has automatic bounce handling and removes users from your list. There are several free ones that doe the same thing: ezmlm, mailman, majordomo and many others. You probably don't want to just send all those emails without a piece of MLM software to manage it. you will probalby get blacklisted fromservers. You need things like unsubscribe handling or you won't be sending emails for long.
Heh. if you could find out a way, the answer would be worth billions to spammers.
The best answer here is: No.