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Sent to Computer Experts March 09 01:03 PM

Hi everyone,

I need an expert! I'm noticing that the ExpertAsk activation e-mail gets put into people's spam box a lot. Anybody out there know what I can do to the following letter to keep it from getting caught by the spam filters?

Subject Line: Welcome to  ExpertAsk

Message:

Hi randomuser

Thank you for taking the time to register to use ExpertAsk.

Username: randomuser

Password: randomuser

To activate your membership for ExpertAsk click on the link below:

http://www.expertask.com/activate.asp?ID=randomuserD53A8E3C5A

Or, enter the following activation code on your confirmation page: randomuserD53A8E3C5A



Edited by Customer (name blocked for privacy) on March 9 2004 at 1:04 PM

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Status:  Closed   Value: $5
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March 9 9:03 PM (8 hours and 17 seconds later)
         
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Andy - put their real name/user id along with their e-mail address in the "TO" field and that should bypass most filters.

For example:


From: ExpertAsk
To: "Joe"<randomuser@expertask.com>
Subject: Welcome to Expert Ask

BLAH BLAH BLAH.

Try to send that to me. I've got one of the best spam filters out there. Let me know. :-)
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March 9 9:05 PM (2 minutes and 7 seconds later)
         
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March 9 9:53 PM (47 minutes and 37 seconds later)
         

Hi justplainsinister :-),

That's how we're doing it already... Here's how it looks now:

To: RandomUser

From: ExpertAsk

So, that's not it... Any other ideas?

Andy

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March 9 11:42 PM (1 hour and 48 minutes and 46 seconds later)
         
Do you have their real first name or their expert ask name? Need clarification, that's all. Thanks.
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March 10 1:17 AM (1 hour and 35 minutes and 17 seconds later)
         

Their username... If you think it would help, I could change it...

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March 10 2:14 PM (12 hours and 16 minutes and 26 seconds later)
         

FYI to All.

I am going to accept Justplainsuzie's answer, but I want to leave this question open for now in case anyone else has any solid answers... I'll accept those too.

Andy

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March 10 9:06 PM (11 minutes and 9 seconds later)
         

I'm going to accept it, but I'm trying to keep the question open in case anyone else has more ideas...

I wish those dang engineers at this site would work harder so I don't have to do little work-arounds like this!

Andy

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