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Why my Email are received in the spam folder? [closed]
I am using Mass email marketing or shoot out email campaign but my subscriber received my mail in spam folder what are the reason of this and how can I prevent them.
Question reference: Email ...
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Spam that comes from names in my address book, but not their email addresses
I've recently received two spam messages that show a possibly worrying degree of knowledge about my contacts, and I'm wondering how concerned I should be.
Specifically, the names -- but not the email ...
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How do I safely inspect a suspicious email attachment?
I received a pretty blatantly spammy email to my Gmail account. I'm not really sure how it made it through the spam filters, since it has all of the telltale signs. The FROM field is spoofed as ...
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How do I know if my email account has been hijacked?
A few times now, I've received emails from contacts with subjects along the lines of "hi!" and message bodies of only a link to some website. I've checked the ip of the sender of these emails, and ...
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How does the Yahoo webmail exploit work?
I got an email (referring to me by name) from somebody I knew a while ago and the email itself was just two/three lines containing a bit-ly link. Although it seemed like it actually could be ...
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Emails wrongly flagged as spam by filter, claiming suspicious URLs
My wife runs a small website (in Japanese) selling vintage products online. She's sending out emails to customers with details about their order, together with images of the products and links to the ...
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How do spammers verify the validity of a huge amount of email addresses?
I noticed that there is an email address validation method, that is to telnet to a email MX server and send rcpt command to the server.
But for this method, the MX server may abort connection after ...
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Spoof email, spam and link bait? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What malicious things can happen when clicking on links in email?
Recently, I have been receiving a couple of SPAM emails seemingly from one of my friends. The email ...
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Are these email captchas legitimate?
The last week, I've been getting this kind of emails to addresses that I don't use:
Dear Sir, Madam,
For security reasons and as part of our ongoing fight against spam, it is our policy not ...
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Can most mail from *.ru be considered spam?
Is it safe to assume that most, if not all, emails from a *.ru domain may be considered spam? From a log of 30000 emails from *.ru, its all been spam (over two months).
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how to stop brute force attack to my email server [closed]
I have email server for my office, OS: Fedora12, MTA :sendmail, webmail: squirellmail .
I was accussed of sending spam to others recently .
I found at maillog on my email server , there are someone ...
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What user was this spammer trying to authenticate as?
I have a custom application that monitors and logs a user's SMTP session, and came across this spammer trying to use my MTA as a relay.
Is it possible to determine what username they are trying to ...
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Delivery Failure Notification spam protection?
My domain (example.com) has recently been targeted by spammers who are sending email (somewhere) but forging the sender as random-name@example.com. I have been getting flooded by delivery failure ...
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Is there any reason to not use DKIM, SPF, and SenderID because it affects plausible deniability?
Is there any basis in not deploying anti-spam (or deliverability) technologies like DKIM, SPF, and SenderID because it affects plausible deniability?
Some definitions to get everyone on the same ...
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Does selecting different email address rather than info@domain.com help preventing spam mails?
I think when bots gather domain names or they have it since before, they create emails like info@xxx.com or support@xxx.com.
Does selecting something different help to prevent spams? Does it affect it ...
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Hashcash, is this really used?
I just heard about this term, is it really used? The concept does not seem new, is it used and/or implemented in current technologies?
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How did the spam email sender get my name?
Some time ago I bought something online from a reputable website. I paid through my credit card and everything worked fine. The thing which is important to note is that the name used on the credit ...
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How long can I store personal information on unconfirmed subscriptions?
I have a monthly newsletter. In my subscribe form I use a double opt-in method:
The visitor subscribes.
I send him a confirmation email.
If I receive a reply, I add him/her to my system.
In the ...
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Is it unsafe to allow apps other than Outlook to send email via the Exchange server?
My application is a .NET Windows Forms client, one of whose functions is to allow the user to send personalised mailshot emails to opted-in recipients stored in the database.
The emails are sent ...
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471 views
Email not received when sent by our app, received when sent by outlook [closed]
We have an application that sends mail in bulk, via a mail provider (Mailjet). Our clients are professional organizations, and they send important mails about meetings and stuff like that, to about 10 ...
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What are common/official methods of reporting spam/phishing/nasty-grams to organizations?
A user of mine just received a phishing email claiming to be the IRS. What methods of reporting are available, and what should be included?
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Spam fighting idea
I have this crazy idea that spam e-mail would not be worth the time of the senders. This is how it's going to work.
Someone sets up a reputation-based site, much like stackexchange sites, where ...
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Next steps after webmail account was compromised
John Doe told me the following story:
I got a mail from a good friend. It just contained a single link. That seemed odd but I didn't think a lot about it. After clicking on the link, the web site ...
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What malicious things can happen when clicking on links in email?
I've received a spam from one of my friends (well I'm sure he didn't send it). so there's this link, and i'd thought what exactly would be the implications of clicking the link (i've not clicked it ...
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Legal process for suing joejobber?
I'm currently being joejobbed, and want to sue the joejobber. Details:
I have real damages: the joejob causes me to receive fake bounces, which:
stop/delay my receipt of legitimate mail, since ...
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spam with my own domain
At my work we have a very tricky issue with spam. We use postfix, and recently began to receive several spams mail with our own domain. This is obviously very prejudicial for us, because many ...
