Avoiding Spam Filters for Legitimate Mail
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On my website, members can send messages to each other, the message is sent directly to the member's email address, I'm worried that some members can send spam to other members (I have a basic spam filter in my site but there's no guarantee it will detect all spam messages) and since the mail is sent from my site's domain I could get my domain blacklisted in free mail providers like hotmail, yahoo, gmail .. etc, any suggestions how I could avoid this? I thought about sending the mail from a randomly generated email address that doesn't exist, e.g. 0fcc717f-43f9-4dbc-99ad-166bb22f1c2b@mysite.com (using a guid), so that if the address gets blocked it shouldn't be a problem as it will not used again anyway, how effective is this in your opinion? will my whole domain be blocked if any spam sent from it? Thanks for your suggestions ...
Waleed Eissa Software Developer Sydney
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On my website, members can send messages to each other, the message is sent directly to the member's email address, I'm worried that some members can send spam to other members (I have a basic spam filter in my site but there's no guarantee it will detect all spam messages) and since the mail is sent from my site's domain I could get my domain blacklisted in free mail providers like hotmail, yahoo, gmail .. etc, any suggestions how I could avoid this? I thought about sending the mail from a randomly generated email address that doesn't exist, e.g. 0fcc717f-43f9-4dbc-99ad-166bb22f1c2b@mysite.com (using a guid), so that if the address gets blocked it shouldn't be a problem as it will not used again anyway, how effective is this in your opinion? will my whole domain be blocked if any spam sent from it? Thanks for your suggestions ...
Waleed Eissa Software Developer Sydney
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Without knowing anything about your site, how about restricting the number of emails any member can send in a day?
Bob Ashfield Consultants Ltd
Hi Bob, thanks for your reply but actually my question is not about how to fight spam on my website it's about how to make messages sent from my website get through the spam filters of the major free webmail providers like hotmail, gmail, yahoo, aol .. etc, and also how to avoid having the domain of my website blacklisted on those mail providers (which will consequentially cuase any mail sent from my website to end up in the junk/spam folder), by the way, I already implemented some restrictions on the number of messages a member can send per session but not a limit (if a member sends more than x messages per session, they will have to pass a captcha for every message they send after this in the same session, like what happens in popular social networks like myspace and hi5) .. regards
Waleed Eissa Software Developer Sydney
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Hi Bob, thanks for your reply but actually my question is not about how to fight spam on my website it's about how to make messages sent from my website get through the spam filters of the major free webmail providers like hotmail, gmail, yahoo, aol .. etc, and also how to avoid having the domain of my website blacklisted on those mail providers (which will consequentially cuase any mail sent from my website to end up in the junk/spam folder), by the way, I already implemented some restrictions on the number of messages a member can send per session but not a limit (if a member sends more than x messages per session, they will have to pass a captcha for every message they send after this in the same session, like what happens in popular social networks like myspace and hi5) .. regards
Waleed Eissa Software Developer Sydney