Our Forward emails are classified as Spam.
Do you have suggestions on how to reduce the spam score?
Can we have plain text emails?

Following is the spam report.

X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "cp16.myhostcenter.com", has
	identified this incoming email as possible spam.  The original message
	has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label
	similar future email.  If you have any questions, see
	the administrator of that system for details.
	Content preview:  < snip > [...] 
	Content analysis details:   (5.5 points, 5.0 required)
	pts rule name              description
	---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
	0.0 HTML_MESSAGE           BODY: HTML included in message
	1.7 MIME_HTML_ONLY         BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts
	2.5 HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_16     BODY: HTML: images with 1200-1600 bytes of words
	1.1 HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG  HTML-only message, but there is no HTML tag
	0.2 HTML_SHORT_LINK_IMG_2  HTML is very short with a linked image

Comments

seanr’s picture

seanr
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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

I fixed HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG, but the others, especially MIME_HTML_ONLY will be much harder. I'm having a hell of a time figuring out how to do that one with Drupal's built in mail function. I also tried mimemail and that didn't end well. LOL

wgrunberg’s picture

wgrunberg commented

@seanr Thank you! Are your changes in the dev version? In our case, fixing HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG should reduce the score by 1.1 which should put our emails just below the 5.0 maximum score. :)

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wgrunberg commented

I just tested the latest dev build (2010-Feb-02) and it appears that seanr's fixes are not yet included.

seanr’s picture

seanr
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commented

They were just committed a few minutes ago (got delayed due to other issues). I could really use help with the MIME_HTML_ONLY issue. I haven't been able to figure out how to handle it with Drupal's built in mail functions and I don't want to have to rely on third party modules.

wgrunberg’s picture

wgrunberg commented

Thanks seanr! Sorry, I lack Drupal development skills but will ask a friend about MIME_HTML_ONLY in Drupal mail.

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wgrunberg commented

Great! The latest dev release lowers the SPAM score low enough for the emails to get through.
However, there appears to be a bug resulting in a SQL error or, maybe, my installation is fouled up - #739912: SQL error after ugrading to latest dev version.

scottkrieger’s picture

scottkrieger commented

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john.oltman’s picture

john.oltman commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (fixed)