Re: perl script to send email...

My message to my Yahoo account got through, URL and all. Perhaps it's something about the parrticular URL that triggers the spam-detection software?

Mail with URLs is essential ... you tell a friend to visit a web site; you join a new web site or mailing list and receive a message with a link to verify your identity; mailing list messages (Yahoo groups, for example) frequently have a URL in the 'signature' leading to mailing list information.

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Re: perl script to send email... by b10m (Vicar) on Mar 23, 2004 at 17:24 UTC
I don't know what Yahoo is using, but I bet it's comparable to SpamAssassin, which "counts" elements that can be considered "spam". See the tests for more information. The less test come out positive, the better chances are the mail will go straight to the inbox. -- b10m All code is usually tested, but rarely trusted.	[reply]
Re: Re: perl script to send email... by kiat (Vicar) on Mar 23, 2004 at 23:58 UTC
You're right. I'll do more test with the url in question to see what exactly causes the email in which it's contained to be treated as Bulk. I've emails from forums informing me that I've got replies from my posts. Those emails also contained urls but they got through to my Yahoo Inbox. So it must be something to do with the text of that offending url. I'll post the result of my finding if I should be able to nail down anything.	[reply]
Re: Re: perl script to send email... by kiat (Vicar) on Mar 24, 2004 at 01:58 UTC
It baffles me but what I've found so far is this: When the email contains the words 'Please click on the link below to activate your account: url_here', it goes to Bulk. When it contains 'Please proceed to register at the link below: url_here', it goes to Inbox. It could be the words "activate your account". It's quite a mystery to me.	[reply]