NYCPHP Meetup

[Chris Snyder]

It's true that SpamAssassin will tag many messages of that type as spam.

Yet Mailman's confirmations, which are essentially the same thing, 
aren't tagged as spam. Take a look at a confirmation message from 
Mailman, such as you might receive when signing up for this list, and 
ask yourself why? Pay attention to the headers and the amount of 
information included in the message.

When you are ready to start testing your application, sign up for an 
email account that is protected by SpamAssassin, or use one of the many 
test scripts out there that will run an email through the filters to see 
how it scores. It isn't too hard to come up with an honest format. After 
all, this kind of opt-in is exactly what your application should be doing.

    csnyder

Jay Greenspan wrote:

> I'm starting a site that's going to have a newsletter. I was planning 
> on sending a confirmation to the users who give their email data, 
> something that required them to click on a link to confirm their entry 
> to the list. Something simple like:
>
> You have signed up for the CollestSiteEver Newletter. To confirm, 
> click below
>
> http://example.com/emailsignup.php?id=randomizedstring
>
>
> But I recently heard that this type of email was sure to get caught by 
> spam filters on most major servers.
>
> Anyone have experience with this? Tips?
>
> thanks.
>
> -j
>
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